Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

A Bill for an act supplementary to an act Concerning Sherriffs and Coroners approved February 12^th 18271
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be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the general assembly that the County Commissioners Court of the different Counties in this state shall allow the sherriffs thereof Any sum not excedingDollars annually as An exoficio fee for serving the orders of the County Commissioners Court (towit) notices on supervisors of roads Judges of elections and advertising the same and summoning Juries for which no fees is allowed by the Act regulating the Salaries fees and Compensations of the several officers of this State

This act to take effect on the first day of march Next

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A bill for an act Supplementary to an act Concerning Sheriffs and Coroners

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Sel com[Select committee] Wyatt
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Owen

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Rejected.

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“An Act concerning Sheriffs and Coroners,” 1 June 1827, The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois (1839), 652-56.

2Thomas H. Owen introduced HB 51 in the House of Representatives on December 24, 1834. On December 26, the House referred it to a select committee. On December 27, the select committee reported back the bill without amendment. The committee recommended the bill’s rejection, and the House concurred by declining to give it a third reading. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 125-26, 155, 162, 172.