by the county treasurer on the warrant of the county comptroller or other person authorized to issue warrants on the county treasurer; the amount of compensation to be paid to any probation officer appointed by any municipal or city court shall be determined by the city council of the city in which such municipal or city court is situated, and shall be paid out of the city treasury on warrants drawn for that purpose; the compensation to be paid to any chief probation officer appointed jointly by the judges of the circuit court of any county, and the judges of any municipal or city court, as provided in section 9 of this Act, shall be equally apportioned between the county and the cities, the judges of whose courts made such appointment as aforesaid, and the amount thereof shall be fixed by said judges and approved by the board of county commissioners or supervisors of such county and by the city councils of the cities for which said chief probation officer is appointed as aforesaid: Provided, however, that the compensation paid any chief probation officer in counties of the third class shall not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) a year; the compensation of each of not more than three assistant probation officers in counties of said class shall not exceed eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) a year, and the compensation of any other probation officer in counties of said class shall in the case of probation officers of the circuit court be fixed by the county board, and in the case of probation officers appointed by a municipal or city court by the city council: And, provided, that the compensation of any chief probation officer in counties of the second class shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) a year, and the compensation of any other probation officer in counties of said class shall not exceed eight hundred dollars ($800) a year: And, provided, that in counties of the first class the compensation of any probation officer shall be limited to a per diem of not to exceed three dollars ($3) per day for such time only as said officer shall be actually engaged in the discharge of his official duties. Probation officers shall, in counties of said first class, be entitled to their necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties, but in counties of the second and third classes no probation officer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any traveling expenses unless such officer shall be called upon to go outside of his county, in which case such officer shall be reimbursed for his necessary traveling expenses, and the court having jurisdiction may, by special order duly entered, direct that a probation officer shall be reimbursed for other expenses, incurred in any case pending before said court. All such expenses after being certified by the presiding judge of the circuit court or the committee of judges provided for in section 9 of this Act and approved by the board of county commissioners or board of supervisors of such county, shall be paid by the county treasurer on warrant by the proper county officer. No probation officer receiving compensation from any public funds under the provisions of this Act shall receive any compensation, gift or gratuity whatsoever from any person, firm or corporation for doing, or refraining from doing any official

act in any way connected with his work as probation officer, or in any way connected with any proceeding then pending or about to be instituted in any court with which said probation officer has to do. Any probation officer receiving compensation from any public funds under the provisions of this Act, who shall receive any compensation, gift or gratuity whatever from any person, firm or corporation for doing or refraining from doing any official act in any way connected with his work as probation officer, or in any way connected with any proceeding then pending or about to be instituted in any court with which said probation officer has to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly and shall be immediately removed by the court or judges having the power of removal.

§ 15. A defendant who shall have successfully invoked the provisions of this Act may review, by appeal in the same manner, as near as may be, as in case of appeal from the circuit courts in misdemeanors, or writ of error, any order changing, modifying or terminating the probation period. The appellate courts of this State are hereby given jurisdiction finally to hear and determine all such appeals and writs of error, and such courts may affirm, reverse or modify such orders so that the same shall conform to the provisions of this Act, and so that its purposes and the interests of justice and society shall be best subserved.

§ 16. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed in any way as depriving any person of the right of trial by jury, or as interfering with, or encroaching upon, the prerogative of the Governor to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction for all offenses, or with the right of the Board of Pardons to parole offenders after sentence and conviction, as provided in the Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime and providing for a system of parole and to provide compensation for the officers of such system of parole," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, and the amendments thereto.

§ 17. The invalidity of any portion of this Act shall not affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid part.

AN ACT to provide for the election and time of election of judges of the superior court of Cook county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That each of the sitting judges of the superior court of Cook county shall hold his office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected, and from and after the passage of this Act the twelve judges of the superior court of Cook county shall be elected as follows:

One judge on the first Monday in June in the year of our Lord nineteeen hundred and fifteen and every six years thereafter;

Six judges on the first Monday of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixteen, and every six years thereafter;

Four judges on Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred eleven and every six years thereafter;

One judge on the first Tuesday in April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirteen and every six years thereafter;

Each of the judges so elected as above provided shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday in December next after his election, and shall hold office for a term of six years and until his successor is elected and qualified.

§ 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

SUPERIOR COURT-NUMBER OF JUDGES, NOMINATIONS.

§ 1. Number of judges increased to eighteen.

§ 2. Time of election-term.
§ 3.

(HOUSE BILL No. 450.

Nominations-how made.
APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.)

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 twenty-two (22) additional judges of the circuit or superior 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 twelve (12), its present number, to eighteen (18).

§ 2. On Tuesday after the first Monday of November in the year 1911 and every six (6) years thereafter the six (6) 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 nominations for said additional offices by political parties in Cook county entitled to make nominations for officers to be elected in said county shall, until otherwise provided by law, be made in the manner prescribed by an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the holding of primary elections by political parties," approved March 9, 1910, excepting that the nominations for said offices to be filled at the election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1911,

other than those made by petition, shall be made by conventions of the precinct committeemen of the respective political parties to be held on the 19th day of September, 1911, and the nominations made by said conventions when certified to by the presiding officer thereof shall be placed upon the official ballot to be voted at said election in the same manner as if said nominations had been made at a primary election. APPROVED June 10, 1911.

AN ACT to regulate the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, to fix the compensation of the reporter, to fix the price of said reports, to provide for the purchase of certain copies thereof by the State and for their distribution, and repealing a certain Act therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: The reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court shall be distributed as follows, viz: Five copies to the Library of Congress, one copy to the President of the United States, one copy to each state and territorial library, one copy to each judge of the Supreme Court of this State, one copy to each judge of the circuit courts of this State, one copy to each judge of the superior court of Cook county, one copy to the judge of each city court in this State, one copy to each clerk of the courts of record in this State, one copy to each law institute in this State, one copy to each State officer required to reside at the seat of government. Five copies shall be deposited in each library of the Supreme Court of this State, and twenty copies shall be deposited in the State library for the use of the State. For the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and required to purchase a sufficient number of copies of the official edition of said Illinois reports published since volume numbered sixty-two (62), and each and every volume from time to time as the same shall hereafter be published, for the purpose provided as aforesaid, said books to be paid for when certified by the Secretary of State, upon the warrant of the Auditor, by the State Treasurer, out of moneys appropriated for that purpose. The price per volume of said reports, subsequent to volume sixty-two (62) which have been published prior to July 1, 1877, shall not exceed three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per volume. All volumes of said reports published after July 1, 1877, up to and including volume two hundred and forty-five (245), shall be furnished at a price not to exceed two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) per volume, and all volumes published subsequent to and including volume two hundred and forty-six (246) shall be furnished at

a price not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per volume, to be delivered to the Secretary of State. The reporter of said decisions shall perform such duties, in such manner as the Supreme Court has or may, from time to time, by rule prescribe. He shall receive as his compensation a salary of six thousand dollars ($6,000) per annum, payable out of the State treasury in quarter-yearly installments, upon the warrant of the Auditor. It is hereby made the duty of the reporter, within four months after a sufficient number of opinions to constitute a volume shall be ready for delivery to him, to have the same printed and published in the style and manner and of the size and quality required by the rules of the Supreme Court, and for such period as he may be in default in that regard he shall receive no salary, unless the Supreme Court shall certify that such default could not have been avoided by the exercise of due diligence by said reporter. Beginning with volume two hundred and forty-six (246) the reporter shall sell the same and subsequent volumes at a price not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per volume. In no event shall the State be liable for any portion of the cost of the printing and publishing of said reports except as hereinafter provided, but the entire expense thereof shall be paid by the reporter. § 2. The reporter shall print thirty-five hundred (3500) copies of each volume of reports published by him and shall sell and dispose of the same on his own account. When the said thirty-five hundred (3500) copies of any volume published by him shall be disposed of, the reporter shall certify that fact under oath to the Secretary of State, and shall thereupon assign the copyright and deliver the plates of said volume to the Secretary of State for the use of the State of Illinois, without charge to the State, and shall thereupon cease to have any interest in or control over said copyright and plates. The Secretary of State shall thereafter cause such number of copies to be printed and bound, at the expense of the State, as may from time to time be needed to supply the demand, and shall sell the same at a price not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per volume, accounting to the State for the proceeds. Such books as printed and bound by the Secretary of State as herein provided shall be of the same quality as those published by the reporter.

3. An Act entitled "An Act to regulate the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, to fix the compensation of the reporter, to fix the price of said reports, to provide for the purchase of certain copies thereof by the State and for their distribution," approved May 17, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.