In force March 20, 1835.
AN ACT to amend an act concerning the Trustees of Shawneetown.
1Part of law repealed.
Duty of clerk of said trustees.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the second section of the act as required the Sheriff of Gallatin county to give notice and hold elections for Trustees of said town, be, and the same is hereby repealed2, and hereafter it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the board of Trustees to give
notice and hold said elections.
In case of absence of clerk, it shall be the duty of some justice of the peace to
give notice of election.
Sec. 2. In case there be no Clerk, or in case of the absence of said Clerk, then it shall
be the duty of any Jus-
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tice of the Peace residing in said town, to give not less than twenty days notice in three of the most public places in said
town of such election, and proceed and hold the same on the first Monday in January instead
of May, and notifying the persons elected, and make returns of said election to the
board of Trustees within ten days thereafter: Provided, That if in any case, an election should not be held on said first Monday in January
in each and every year, the same may be held, on like notice being given, on the first
Monday in every other month for trustees for that year; and until such election shall
be held, the last elected Trustees shall continue in office until their successors
are qualified.
Certain powers granted said trustees.
Sec. 3. Said Trustees shall have power to license drays, and exact such other tax as to them
may seem right, not to exceed one-fourth per cent. upon real property in said town, and may tax coffee houses and retailers of spirituous liquors.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after the 20th of March next.
Approved, Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
1Stephen R. Rowan introduced HB 192 in the House of Representatives on January 29, 1835. The House referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 31 with a substitute, in which the House concurred.
The House passed the bill as substituted on February 5. The Senate concurred on February 10. On February 12, 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), 436, 437, 459, 527, 548, 555; 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),443, 464, 469, 477, 509, 515 ;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), 391.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 40-41, GA Session: 9-1