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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all persons who may reside out of the corporate limits of the Town of Alton and within the county of Madison, but whose daily business or profession, shall be in the limits of the said corporation, shall, under the supervision of the Trustees, be entitled to vote for trustees,
and other officers of said Town: and shall be entitled, to all the privileges of citizens.2
Sec 2. Be it further enacted, that there shall be established in the town of Alton, a Recorders office; to be subject to, and governed by, the laws now in force, regulating
recorders offices, and the duties of recorders in the several counties in this state. And a recorder shall be elected, by the qualified voters of said town, at the next election for trustees thereof: who shall hold his office, until the
next general election of recorders, in the several counties of3 this state; and until his successor shall be elected and qualified; and ever thereafter, the
said town shall elect a recorder, in the same manner and time of electing recorders as aforesaid.4
Sec 3. Be it further enacted; that the said reco[rder] when elected, shall be entitled to the same fees [?] be governed by the same rules and regulatio[ns] [?] intents and purposes, that the recorders of the [?] counties in this state now receive for services as re[?] and are governed by.
Sec 4. Be it further enacted, that all deeds, and ot[her] instruments of writing, concerning lands and lots, either, within the corporate bounds
of the said Town, or any addition thereto hereafter made, may be re-
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corded in said recorders office, and when so recorded according to the laws now regulating
the recording of deeds in the county Recorders office;5 the same shall be valid in law, and have the same force and effe[ct] to all intents and purposes, as if recorded in th[e] recorders office of the county. Provided that [?] recorder who may be elected, under the provis[ions of] this act, shall furnish and keep the necessa[ry] and proper recorders books, as now required by to [?]
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1Nathaniel Buckmaster introduced HB 96 in the House of Representatives on December 31, 1835. The House referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on January 6, 1836, with an
amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on
January 9. The Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 186-87, 240, 262;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 202.
2The General Assembly defined the corporate limits of Alton in the town incorporation act passed in 1833. Two years later, the General Assembly
passed an amendatory act that in part revised the corporate boundaries.
“An Act to Incorporate the Town of Alton,” 6 February 1833, Laws, of a Private Nature, of the State of Illinois (1833), 206.
4In 1829, the General Assembly enacted legislation governing the office of recorder. This act empowered the governor
to appoint recorders; in 1835, the General Assembly passed an act making the office elective.
“An Act Relating to the Office of Recorder,” 8 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 116-18.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 91, HB 96, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL),