In force January 19, 1837.
AN ACT to legalise certain process in the 3d and 5th judicial circuits.
1Process 3d judicial circuit.
All process good and valid.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all process of whatever kind or description, issued by any clerk of the circuit
court in the 3d judicial circuit, since the resignation of the honorable Jeptha Hardin Judge thereof, or which may hereafter be issued in the same, bearing test in the
name of said Judge, or of any such clerk, or of any other person or officer, shall
be, and the same is hereby declared to be good and valid in law in respect to such test;
and no such process shall be quashed, set aside, or held to be null and void for any
such cause.
Sec. 2. The provisions of the foregoing section shall apply to process issued, or which
may be issued in the 5th judicial circuit of this State, subsequent to the resignation of the honorable Richard M. Young, Judge of said circuit.
Approved January 19, 1837.
2On December 17, 1836, John A. McClernand introduced HB 9 in the House of Representatives. On January 5, 1837, the Committee on the Judiciary amended the bill and on January
9, the House passed the bill. On January 11, the select committee in the Senate amended the bill by adding “3d” and “5th” to the title, and on the same day the Senate
passed the bill. On January 19, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 48, 69, 137, 176, 219, 237, 254, 263, 286, 297; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 180, 189, 190, 192-93, 216, 222, 240.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 179, GA Session: 10-1