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A Bill for an act directing the time of holding elections for members of Congress.
Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That on the first monday of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven,
and on the first monday of August every second year thereafter, an election shall
be held for so many Representatives in Congress, as thisstate shall be entitled to at that time; which elections shall be conducted in all particulars,
as said elections are now conducted by law
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A Bill for An Act directing the time of holding elections for Representatives of Congress.
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Rowan
Whiteside
McGahey
Tunnel
Hunter
Owen
Rowan
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1Newton Cloud from the Committee on Elections introduced HB 174 in the House of Representatives on January 28, 1835. The House referred it to a select committee consisting of one
representative from each of the six judicial circuits. The select committee reported
back the bill on January 29 without amendment, recommending its rejection. The House
refused to engross the bill for a third reading.
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), 416, 425; An Act Dividing the State into Judicial Circuits.
2Section twenty-six of “An Act Regulating Elections,” had set elections for Congress on the first Monday in August, 1831, and the first Monday in August, 1832, and on
the first Monday in August biennially thereafter.
“An Act Regulating Elections,” 10 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (Shawneetown, IL: Alexander F. Grant, 1829), 67.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 142, HB 174, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)