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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 Legal voters in their respective Townships, shall assemble at such place
as shall be selected by the Trustees of the respective Township on the first monday
in June next and byannually thereafter, and elect one School commissioners for said Township who shall continue
in office for the Term of two years, and until another is elected
Sec 2. The said Trustees shall advertise said Election at Least fifteen days previous
thereto by putting up notices at three of the most public places in their respective
Townships
Sec. 3. The said school commissioners elected under the provisions of this act shall
within ten days thereafter enter into bond in the sum of double the amount which the
Township for which he is elected is entitled to receive with security to be approved
of the Trustees of said Township which Bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk
of the county commissioners court in which said Township Lies and on failure of giving such bond as aforesaid it shall be the duty of the Trustees to proceed to hold another election in the manner
prescribed in the 2nd section of this act, and when such bond is so given and executed as aforesaid the
trustees of such Township shall certify the same to the school commissioner of the
county whose duty it shall be forthwith to pay over to the commissioner
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of such Township [premium,?] the same [?] notes and accounts, in his [hands?] belonging to said Township and Townships. The commissioner shall have and be entitled
to the same fees, now allowed the school commissioner
Sec. 4. The Trustees of their respective Township shall have the management and controll of such funds belonging to, and in the hands of the commissioner of the said Township
to be used for the purposes specified in the act which this is an amendment any Law to the contrary notwithstanding
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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an Act to provide for the application of the interest
of the fund arising from the sale of the school lands belonging to the several Townships
in this state approved March Feby[February] 7th 1835
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1Calvin Tunnel introduced HB 30 in the House of Representatives on December 16, 1835. The House referred it to the Committee on Education, which
reported back unfavorably on December 23. The Committee stated that school funds
would be better managed by giving their control to the county school commissioners
rather than to the township school commissioners. The House then amended the bill
by adding the fifth section. The House agreed to engross and read the bill a third
time by a vote of 31 yeas to 20 nays, Abraham Lincoln voting nay. On December 30, the House referred the bill to a select committee.
On January 6, 1836, the select committee reported back the bill with an amendment.
Representatives instead proposed to replacing with a substitute. The House referred
the bill and proposed substitute amendment to a select committee, which reported back
the bill on January 15 without amendment. On that day, the House voted against passage
of the bill by a vote of 14 yeas to 31 nays, with Lincoln voting nay.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 26-7, 72, 131-32, 179, 241-42, 333.
2On December 23, 1835, the House amended the bill by adding Section 5.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 132.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 30, HB 30, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,