Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 7, 1835.

AN ACT in relation to Bank Collectors.
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Auditor and Treasurer authorized to settle with such collectors.

Collectors failing to pay over money, to be sued.

Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Auditor of public accounts and Treasurer, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to settle the accounts of the several attorneys, justices of the peace, and other collectors of money due to the President and Directors of the State Bank of Illinois, and to allow such reasonable charges for contingent expenses as may appear to them proper, and if any balance shall be found due to any such attorney, justice of the peace, or other collector, said Auditor and Treasurer shall give a certificate of the same, and upon filing such certificate in the Auditor’s office, the Auditor shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of such attorney, justice of the peace, or other collector, for the amount contained in said certificate. If any sum shall appear to be due from any of said attorneys, justices of the peace, or other collectors, and they shall fail to appear and settle

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their accounts on or before the first day of April next, and pay over such amount as shall be found due from them, then it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to direct the Attorney General, or proper State’s Attorney, to commence suit against all such delinquents without delay: Provided, That no money shall be paid out of the State Treasury, under the provisions of this act, until an appropriation shall be made by law.2

This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, Feb. 7, 1835.

1John D. Hughes from the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures introduced HB 143 in the House of Representatives on January 22, 1835. The House referred it to the Committee on Finance. The Committee on Finance reported back the bill with a substitute, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as substituted on January 24. On January 27, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Finance. The Committee on Finance reported back the bill on January 31 without amendment. On February 2, the Senate amended the bill by adding a proviso at the end of the first section. The Senate passed the bill as amended. The House concurred in the Senate amendment on February 3. On February 7, 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, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 347, 353, 376, 497, 498,; 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, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 326, 348-349, 385, 400, 419, 453, 454. 461; Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their Second Session, Begun and Held in Pursuance of the Proclamation of the Governor, in the Town of Vandalia, December 7, 1835 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 373-374, 410.

2On February 2, 1835, the Senate amended the bill by adding this proviso.
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, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 400.