Excerpt from The Municipal Court Act: With Notes Shortly after the adoption by the people of the constitutional amendment of 1904, which now constitutes section 34 of Article IV of the constitution of 1870, the Chicago New Charter Convention, through its executive committee, selected Messrs. John P. Wilson, Murray F. Tuley, Carter H. Harrison, John S. Miller, Bernard A. Eckhart and Bernard E. Sunny as a committee, John P. Wilson being its chairman, to draft a bill to be introduced into the General Assembly for the creation of municipal courts in and for the city of Chicago. This committee employed the writer to assist them. The work was entered upon about December 10, 1904, and was actively participated in by all of the members of the committee. About January 20, 1905, the committee, after a number of conferences and discussions, at which the matter was given careful consideration, agreed upon a bill for an act to be entitled "An Act in relation to municipal courts in the city of Chicago." By this bill there were provided one municipal court designated the common pleas court and five additional municipal courts designated city courts. The common pleas court was to be given jurisdiction in all civil and criminal cases and proceedings of every kind and character other than suits in equity, and of all such suits in equity as might be transferred to it by change of venue or otherwise by the circuit court of Cook county or by the superior court of Cook county for trial and disposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.