In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
AN ACT to amend an act to License and Regulate Taverns.
1Sum to be demanded for license.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the county commissioners’ court of each and every county in this State shall, at the time of granting a license under the act to which this is an amendment,
demand of, and from the person receiving the same, a sum not more than fifty dollars,
taking into consideration the stand where such tavern is to be located or opened,
which sum so received, shall, by the said commissioners, be paid to the County Treasurer
of said county; which license so granted, shall authorize such person to keep a tavern
and retail liquors for the term of one year.2
Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1On December 9, 1834, the Senate passed a resolution instructing the Committee on Finance to investigate the propriety
of granting licenses to grocers. From the committee, Adam W. Snyder introduced SB 18 in the Senate on December 18, 1834. On December 19, the Senate committed it to the
Committee of the Whole. The Committee of the Whole reported back the bill on February
2 with sundry amendments. The Senate referred the bill and proposed amendments to
a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 9 without
amendment, recommending concurrence with the Committee of the Whole’s proposed amendments.
The Senate concurred in the select committee’s recommendation. The Senate passed
the bill as amended on February 10. The House of Representatives concurred on February 12. 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), 527, 535, 547, 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), 74, 108-109, 115-116, 403, 466, 478, 507, 509,
515.
2Up until the passage of this law, the county commissioners’ courts could only collect up to twelve dollars for a tavern license.
Sec. 4, “An Act to License and Regulate Taverns,” 27 February 1819, Laws Passed by the First General Assembly (1819), 77-78.
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), 154, GA Session: 9-1