In force Feb.[February] 13, 1835.
AN ACT concerning public officers.
1Vacancies in the office of county commissioner, how filled.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever any vacancy shall happen in the office of County Commissioner by death,
resignation or otherwise, the Clerk of the county commissioners’ court, when such vacancy shall occur, shall appoint a day to hold a special election to
fill such vacancy, and shall give immediate notice to the several Judges of elections
to hold the same, which election shall be conducted agreeable to the law regulating
elections.2
Part of act repealed.
Sec. 2. That so much of the twenty-second section of an act, entitled “An act to provide
for the raising a revenue,” approved, Feb. 19, 1827,3 as requires a statement of the fiscal concerns of the counties to be made at the
December term of the county commissioners’ court, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and hereafter the statement of the fiscal concerns
of the counties, shall be made out at the March term of the county commissioners’ court annually.
Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1William Gordon from the Committee on Education introduced HB 182 in the House of Representatives on January 29, 1835. On February 5, the House referred it to the Committee on Finance.
The Committee on Finance reported back the bill on February 9 with an amendment, in
which the House concurred. On February 11, the House referred the bill to a select
committee. The select committee reported back the bill with an amendment, in which
the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred on February 12. On February 13, 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), 428, 502, 529, 532, 544, 558, 560, 566; 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), 502, 505, 521, 522, 528;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, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 393.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 34, GA Session: 9-1