shall be impaneled for the February term except by special order of a judge of said court, which order may be made either in term time or in acation; in the county of Crawford on the first Mondays of March, September and December, provided no jury shall be summoned for said December term unless by special order of a judge of said court, which order may be entered either in term time or in vacation. § 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefor this Act shall take ffect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval. APPROVED June 11, 1917. IN ACT to create the Court of Claims and to prescribe its power and duties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, presented in the General Assembly: The Court of Claims is hereby reated. It shall consist of a chief justice and two judges, appointed y the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. In ny case of vacancy in such office during the recess of the Senate, the overnor shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting f the Senate, when he shall nominate some person to fill such office; nd any person so nominated, who is confirmed by the Senate, shall old his office during the remainder of the term and until his successor appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at the time is Act takes effect, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment ; in case of a vacancy. § 2. The term of office of the chief justice and of each judge shall ? four years from the second Monday in January next after the election. a Governor, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. § 3. Before entering upon the duties of the office the chief justice each judge shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, hich shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. § 4. The chief justice and each judge shall each receive a salary fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly install ents. § 5. The Secretary of State shall be ex officio secretary of the Court Claims. He shall provide the court with a suitable place in the apitol Building in which to transact its business. § 6. The Court of Claims shall have power: (1) To make rules and orders, not inconsistent with law, for carrying out the duties imposed upon it by law; (2) To make rules governing the practice and procedure before the court, which shall be as simple, expeditious and inexpensive as reasonably may be; (3) To compel the attendance of witnesses before it, or before any notary public or any commissioner appointed by it, and the produetion of any books, records, papers or documents that may be material or relevant as evidence in any matter pending before it; (4) To hear and determine all claims and demands, legal and equitable, liquidated and unliquidated, ex contractu and ex delict which the State, as a sovereign commonwealth, should, in equity and good conscience discharge and pay; (5) To hear and give its opinion on any controverted questions of claims or demand referred to it by any officer, department, institution, board, arm or agency of the State Government and to report its findings and conclusions to the authority by which it was transmitted for its guidance and action; (6) To hear and determine the liability of the State for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment by any employee of the State, such determination to be made in accordance with the rules prescribed in the Act commonly called the "Workmen's Compensation Act," the Industrial Commission being hereby relieved of any duty relative thereto. § 7. In case any person refuses to comply with any subpoena issued in the name of the chief justice, attested by the Secretary of State, with the seal of the State attached, and served upon the person named therein as a summons at common law is served, the Circuit Court of the proper county, on application of the secretary of the Court, shall compe obedience by attachment proceedings, as for contempt, as in a case of a disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena from such court on a refusal to testify therein. § 8. The concurrence of two members of the court shall be necessary to the decision of any case. § 9. The court shall file a brief written statement of the reasons for its determination in each case. In case the court shall allow a claim, or any part thereof, which it has the power to hear and determine, it shall make and file an award in favor of the claimant finding the amount due from the State of Illinois. Annually the secretary of the court shall compile and publish the opinions of the court. § 10. Every claim against the State, cognizable by the Court of Claims, shall be forever barred unless the claim is filed with the secretary of the court within five years after the claim first accrues, saving to infants, idiots, lunatics, insane persons and persons under disability at the time the claim accrued two years from the time the disability is removed. §11. The Attorney General shall appear for and represent the interests of the State in all matters before the court. § 12. All claims now pending in the Court of Claims created under "An Act to create the Court of Claims and prescribe its powers and duties," approved May 16, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, shall be heard and determined by the Court of Claims created by this Act in accordance with the provisions hereof. §13. The jurisdiction conferred upon the Court of Claims by this Act shall be exclusive. No appropriation shall hereafter be made by the General Assembly to pay any claim or demand, over which the Court of Claims is herein given jurisdiction, unless an award therefor shall have been made by the Court of Claims. §14. The following Act is hereby repealed: "An Act to limit the time for persons to bring claims against the State of Illinois," approved and in force March 1, 1847. (HOUSE BILL No. 14. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of County Courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by amending sections forty-three (43), sixty-eight (68) and one hundred six (106) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, epresented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to xtend the jurisdiction of County Courts, and to provide for the practice hereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein. amed," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently mended, be, and the same is hereby amended, by amending sections. orty-three (43), sixty-eight (68) and one hundred six (106) thereof, o that the said sections forty-three (43), sixty-eight (68) and one undred six (106) when amended shall read as follows: 43. In the county of Hardin on the fourth Monday of February nd second Monday in September. § 68. Madison, second Mondays in February, June and September. 106. Will, on the first Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December. AN ACT in relation to county and probate judges. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, presented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any judge of any County or Probate Court in this State, to act as attorney or solicitor for any administrator, executor, or heirs, or other person or persons (unless he be an officer of the court) interested in the estate of any deceased person, or to aid, advise or assist in the preparation of any petitions, report or other document, which is to be filed or recorded in the court in which he is judge. § 2. PENALTY.] That any county or probate judge, who shall vio late the provisions of this Act, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. § 3. That an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to county and probate judges," approved June 3, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED May 5, 1917. COURTS OF RECORD IN CITIES. § 1. Amends section 5, Act of 1901. § 5. Election and qualifications of judges-term-powers -vacancies-how filled. (HOUSE BILL No. 925. FILED JUNE 27, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, by amending section five (5) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section five (5) thereof to read as follows: § 5. The judges of such courts shall be regularly licensed attorneys and shall be elected by the qualified voters of such city in the same manner that the city officers of such city are elected, but not at the same time, and shall hold their offices for the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. They shall qualify and be commissioned in the same manner, be vested with the same powers and perform the same duties as circuit judges, and have the right to appoint a court reporter on the same terms as the Circuit Court, and shall be styled "judge of the city court of (name of city)." Vacancies in such office shall be filled for the unexpired term at a special election to be called and held by the same authority and in the same manner that other city elections may be held, where such unexpired term exceeds one year; but where the same does not exceed one year, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. FILED June 27, 1917. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. INCREASING NUMBER OF JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY. 1. Number judges Superior Court Cook County increased from 18 to 20. § 2. Additional judges to be elected in November, 1917, and every six years thereafter. § 3. Method of nomination. (SENATE BILL No. 573. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to provide for an increase in the number of judges of the Superior Court of Cook County and to provide for the nomination of candidates for said judicial offices. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That, as it appears by the Federal census of 1910 that the number of inhabitants of the county of Cook is over two millions four hundred thousand (2,400,000) and that therefore the General Assembly is authorized under section 23 of article 6 of the Constitution of this State to provide for nine (9) additional judges of the Circuit or Spperior Courts of said county, therefore the number of judges of the Superior Court of the county of Cook be, and the same is hereby increased from eighteen (18), its present number, to twenty (20). § 2. On Tuesday after the first Monday of November in the year 1917, and every six (6) years thereafter the two (2) additional judges of said Superior Court herein provided for shall be elected, to hold their offices for a term of six (6) years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. § 3. The nomination for said additional offices shall be made in the same manner as is now or shall hereafter be provided by law for the nomination of candidates for the existing offices of judges of the Superior Court of Cook County. AN ACT to amend sections 40, 42 and 48 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905 and in force July 1, 1905 as subsequently amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 40, 42 and 48 of an Act entitled "An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905, and in force July 1, 1905, as subsequently amended, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: |