Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Whereas the compensation now allowed by law to the commissioners of the Census in some of the counties of this State, by reason of the large territory they contain, and the isolated position of the different settlements therein, is inadequate to the services rendered,2 Theref[ore:]

Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the Commissioner’s court of cook county are authorised, and hereby required to pay to James W Reed the sum of One hundred dollars out of the treasury of said County as an additional compensation for taking the Census of said County.

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White, Leonard

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Leo^d White. Sec[Secretary]

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A Bill entitled an act for the releif of James W Reed of Cook County.

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1On December 15, 1835, James M. Strode in the Senate introduced the petition of James W Reed, requesting additional compensation for census-taking services. The Senate referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. In response to this petition, Henry J. Mills of the Committee on Petitions introduced SB 67 in the Senate on January 1, 1836. The Senate passed the bill on January 8. On January 11, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 14 with amendments, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on January 15. The Senate did not concur in the House amendments.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 259, 281, 322, 335; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 41, 143, 168, 186, 252.

2Section eight of a 1829 law providing for the taking of the census stipulated compensation for commissioners. Compensation ranged from two dollars for every one hundred persons returned for the first two thousand; one dollar and seventy-five cents for every one hundred persons returned, over two thousand, but not exceeding three thousand; one dollar and fifty cents for the fourth thousand; one dollar and twenty-five cents for the fifth thousand, and one dollar for each hundred over and above five thousand.
“An Act to Provide for the Taking of the Census, Or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the State,” 13 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 22.