In force Jan.[January] 31, 1835.
AN ACT to amend an act declaring what Laws of a General Nature shall be published
with the Acts of a General Nature of this session, approved, March 2, 1833.
1Sheriffs authorized to sell revised code at $1.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the several sheriffs in this State are hereby authorized and required to sell such copies of the revised code of Illinois, as are now in their hands for sale, under the act2 to which this is an amendment, for the sum of one dollar per copy, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, Jan. 31, 1835.
1On January 5, 1835, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution instructing the Committee on Finance to inquire into the propriety
of authorizing sheriffs to sell copies of the Revised Laws of Illinois. In response to this resolution, John D. Whiteside from the Committee on Finance introduced HB 84 in the House on January 7. The House passed the bill on January 13. On January
14, the House re-considered its passage and referred it to a select committee. The
select committee reported back the bill on January 15 with amendments, in which the
House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred on January 27. On January 31, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 221, 242, 274, 287, 289, 297, 411, 452, 460-61; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 261, 270, 323, 355, 383, 390.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 141, GA Session: 9-1