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Sec[Section]. 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly: That the auditor of the State of Illinois be and he is hereby required to allow and credit the Sheriff’s of the counties of Pike and Adams in payment of the resident Land tax due from said counties for the year 18362, the amount of excess, over and above the appropriation made by Law in Lieu thereof
for the years of 1834, and 1835, and that said Sheriff’s amount for the same to the county county commissioners court of their respective Counties.3
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1William Ross introduced a version of HB 17 in the House of Representatives on December 14, 1835. The House referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on December 15 without amendment, recommending its passage.
The House passed the bill on December 21. On December 23, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Finance. The Committee on Finance did not
report back the bill. Ross introduced a second version of HB 17 in the House on December
31. The House passed the bill on January 4. The Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 32, 61, 64, 114, 190, 206, 221; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 89, 93, 172.
3From 1823 to 1838, all of the state property taxes owed by persons residing outside
the state (non-resident tax) was allocated for the use of the state government. One-third
of the property taxes owed by Illinois residents was also allocated for the state, leaving two-thirds of the resident tax
for the use of counties.
Robert Murray Haig, A History of the General Property Tax in Illinois, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1914 (Champaign: University of Illinois, 1914),
40-42.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 17, HB 17, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)