1853.

590

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Duty of elerk.

KiUibllity.

uovernor is''ommlsslon.

Jurisdiction.

Duty.

by the ordinances of said city for the election of mayor andaldermen thereof.

§ H. When two or more persons shall have an equalnumber of votes for recorder, or when an election for re-corder shall be contested, the same proceedings shall behad to determine the questions and rights of tl^e parties, asare now provided by tire two several acts hereby amended,and the ordinances of said city now in force, or that mayhereafter be passed in reference to the election of mayorof said city, when two or more persons shall have an equalnumber of votes for said office of mayor, or when the elec-tion of said mayor may be contested.

§ ^3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said city, im-mediately after 1 the election of recorder shall have beenhad, to file a certificate of the election of the person whoshall [be] declared to be duly elected to the office of re-corder, with the county clerk of Peoria county, whoseduty it shall be to file and preserve the same, and enter itupon the books kept by the said clerk for recording theelection of justices of the peace for said county ; and thesaid county clerk shall, when required, certify to his offi-cial character, as in cases of justices of the peace.

j 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of city-recorder, who is not above the age of twenty-one yearsand who shall not have resided one year in said city nextpreceding his election.

e § 5. The said recorder shall be commissioned by thegovernor as a justice of the peace, and shall be conservatorof the peace in said city; and shall have power and au-thority to administer oaths, issue writs and process underthe seal of the city, to take depositions, the acknowledg-ment of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments ofwriting, and certify the same under the seal of the city,which shall be good and valid in law.

§ 6. The said recorder, when duly qualified, shall have,possess and exercise exclusive jurisdiction in and over allcases arising under the ordinances of said city, and whichis now exercised by the mayor thereof, under and by virtueof the provisions of the two several acts hereby amended:Provided, that the city marshal of said city, or any other offi-cer authorized to execute writs or process issued by thesaid recorder, shall have power to execute the same any-where within the limits of Peoria county.

§ 7. He shall hold a recorder’s court in said city forthe trial of all cases arising under the ordinances of saidcity, as is now provided for the holding of a mayor’s courttherein, or as may hereafter be provided by ordinance.He shall keep a docket in which shall be entered all casestried before him in the same manner as is required of jus-tices of the peace by the laws of this state.