Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Jan.[January] 31, 1825.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners’ Courts of Randolph and Perry Counties to refund certain Taxes.
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County commissioners to refund taxes paid by mistake or inadvertancy on lands not 5 years purchased.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in all cases where, by mistake or inadvertance, any person or persons in the county of Randolph and Perry, shall have listed their lands, lying in said counties respectively, for taxation, within the five years after the purchase from the United States, and have paid the taxes thereon when the same were not taxable,2 shall be permitted to receive from the county commissioners’ court of said counties, an order for the amount of said taxes, which said order shall be received for the value thereof, into the County Treasury for the taxes that may hereafter be due and payable by the person or persons to whom the same may be granted.

Approved, Jan. 31, 1835.

1Richard G. Murphy introduced HB 109 in the House of Representatives on January 13, 1835. The House passed the bill on January 15. On January 27, the Senate amended the bill by striking out the word “and” after the word “taxable.” The Senate passed the bill as amended. The House concurred with the Senate amendment on January 28. On January 31, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
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, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 284, 292, 298, 412, 419, 451, 459, 461; Journal of the Senate, 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, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 261, 270, 323, 352-353, 378, 383, 390.

2On January 27, 1835, the Senate amended the bill by striking out the word “and” after the word “taxable.”
Journal of the Senate, 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, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 352.