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Sec[Section] 1.st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly: That every person who shall pass, utter[,] or publish, or attempt to pass[,] utter[,] or publish any Bank bill, or bank note or any check or draft drawn by any Bank; such
bank bill, bank note, check[,] or draft being under the denomination of five Dollars shall on conviction thereof
be fined in any sum not exceding ten dollars to be recovered by indictment in any court having jurisdiction thereof
or by action of debt before any Justice of the Peace of the proper county in the name
and for the use of any person suing therefor.
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The States attorneys of the several circuits shall respectively at each and every
term of such court give this act in special charge to the Grand Jury. This act to
be in force from and after the first day of June next.
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A Bill for an act to prevent the circulation of Bank notes under the denomination of five dollars
A Bill for an act to prevent the circulation of Bank notes under the denomination of five dollars
1On December 29, 1834, the House of Representatives passed a resolution instructing the Committee on Finance to investigate the expediency
of a law forbidding the circulation of bank bills under $5, $10, and $20 within the
state. John D. Whiteside from the Committee on Finance introduced HB 108 in the House on January 13, 1835.
The House passed the bill on January 15. On January 17, the Senate tabled the bill and took no further action.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 177, 281-82, 291-92, 298; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 261, 270.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 87, HB 108, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,