Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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An act to amend “An act relative to criminal Jurisprudence” approved February 26^th 1833.2

Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That any person who shall unlawfully enter upon lands in this state, belonging either to the State or any corporation therein or upon the seminary, canal, common school, or other lands, held for public use, or upon lands owned by any private person or persons, and haveing entered, shall box, bore, cut down, or carry away therefrom, any species of timber or wood thereon growing, or being, such person or persons shall be subject to be indiceted and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars— and any owner of such lands may be a witness to prove any such offence.

Sec. 2^d It shall be the duty of every grand Juror to give information to the respective Grand Juries of any offences against the provisions of this act, either resting in his own knowledge or derived from the information of others.

Sec. 3^d In all cases of conviction under this act the court shall have power to order as part of the Judgement of the court that the offender shall be committed to jail there to remain until the fine and costs are fully paid or otherwise legally discharged.

Sec. 4^th The act entitled “an act” to prevent trespasses by cutting timber passed February 27^th 1819 is hereby repealed, but penalties incured shall be proceeded ^against^ as if no repeal was had.3

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A Bill for “an act to amend an act relative to Criminal Jurisprudence. approved Febry[February] 25: 1833”

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sel. com Hughes
Frazer
Nunnally
Thomas
Stuart.

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rejected
Jan.[January] 28. 1835.

1Elijah S. Frazer introduced HB 121 in the House of Representatives on January 16, 1835. On January 17, the House referred it to a select committee. On January 28, the select committee reported back the bill without amendment, recommending its rejection. The House concurred and did not engross the bill or read it a third time.
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), 292, 305, 322-23, 408.

2Divisions six and seven of that act dealt with crimes against habitations, buildings, and property.
“An Act relative to Criminal Jurisprudence,” 26 February 1833, The Revised Laws of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: Greiner & Sherman, 1833), 181-85.

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“ An Act to prevent trespassing, by cutting Timber.” Laws Passed by the First General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Kaskaskia, IL: Blackwell & Berry, 1819, 84-86.