AN ACT, supplemental to an act, changing the terms of holding the Circuit Courts, in the third Judicial Circuit, passed at the present session of the General Assembly.
1Regulating process, suits, &c.[etc.]
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all process, suits, and recognizances, which have been, or may be issued, or entered into, and made returnable to the courts,
as at present arranged, shall be taken, and considered to be returnable to the terms
fixed by the act to which this is a supplement, and shall be as valid as if ma[d]e returnable to the terms fixed by the act to which this is a supplement.2
Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.
1William J. Gatewood introduced the bill in the Senate on January 16, 1836, and the Senate passed the bill on the same day. The House of Representatives also passed the bill on January 16. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law. Illinois State Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 361, 362, 368, 371; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 277, 279, 285, 288.
2This standard legal language, which provided for legal actions in progress during
court scheduling changes, was not included in the act specifically pertaining to
the Third Judicial Circuit. However, this standard language was present in the 1835
law fixing a new court schedule in the state’s judicial courts.
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), 228, GA Session: 9-2,