Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the Election of Justices of the Peace and Constables,” approved, January 7, 1835.
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Constables shall be elected in each Justice’s district.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That when any new Justice’s district may be laid out by the county commissioners’ court of any county in this State, as provided for in the act to which this is an amendment, Constables shall be elected in such new districts in the same manner that Constables are now elected in Justices districts.

Sec. 2. The Constables elected in said districts, shall be subject to the provisions contained in the act contemplated in the second section of the act to which this is an amendment.2

Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.

1On January 22, 1835, George W. P. Maxwell introduced the bill in the Senate. The Senate passed the bill on January 27. On February 2, the House of Representatives concurred with the bill’s passage. On February 6, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 412, 415, 435, 438, 470; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 306, 325, 354, 404, 437, 442, 454; Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 381, 397, 411.

2In December 1826, the General Assembly passed a law providing for the election of justices of the peace and constables. Before this law, the General Assembly had nominated and appointed justices of the peace and constables under provisions of a 1819 law.
“An Act Regulating the Appointment of Justices of the Peace,” 19 February 1819, Laws of the State of Illinois (1819), 22-23; “An Act to Provide for the Election of Justices of the Peace and Constables,” 30 December 1826, Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 255-59.