AN ACT concerning the payment of the Revenue, and for other purposes.
1Bill received
Governor, &c.[etc.] to give notice
prohibiting reception of said bills
When to be received
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the bills of the Bank of the State of Illinois and branches, shall be received in payment of the revenue of this state, and the different counties in the state; and in payment of college, school and seminary debts, and interest; Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed so as to prohibit the receiving
of other current money of this state, for the purposes aforesaid; Provided further, That if at any time hereafter, the governor, auditor and treasurer, shall be of opinion that there will be danger
of loss, by receiving the bills of the State Bank, as aforesaid, they are hereby authorised and required, to cause a notice to be published in the newspaper printed by the public printer, and all other newspapers printed in the state, prohibiting the further reception of said bills, after a day named in such notice,
for the uses and purposes aforesaid; and after the day named in such notice, the said bills shall not be received, until otherwise directed by law. And in case
the governor, auditor and treasurer, shall give a notice as herein required, it shall
be their duty to communicate the fact to both branches of the General Assembly, within ten days after the next meeting thereof, together with their reasons for
giving such notice.
When in force
Sec. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. And it shall be the duty of the
secretary of state, to cause this act to be published forthwith after its passage,
in the newspaper printed by the public printer of this state.2
Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.
1George W. P. Maxwell introduced SB 32 in the Senate on December 18, 1835. On December 21, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee
on Finance. On January 2, 1836, the Committee on Finance reported back the bill with
an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. On January 4, the Senate passed the bill.
On January 14, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 232, 270-71, 305, 329-30, 346, 358;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 59, 83, 149, 170, 247, 268.
2At this time, the public printer was John Y. Sawyer, who printed the Illinois Advocate and State Register in Vandalia, the state capital.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 244,GA Session: 9-2,