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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That hereafter all Judges and clerks of Elections for Justices of the Peace, County
Recorder and Surveyor in the State shall be allowed a compensation for their services in the same manner as in cases
of General Election2
Sec. 2. The County Commissioners Court of each County in this State shall allow out of their respective County Treasury, to the several Judges and Clerks
of Election within their respective Counties: such compensation not exceeding one
dollar and fifty cents pr.[per] day as said County Commissioners Court shall deem just and equitable, and to the person carrying the polls from the place
of Election to the office of the clerk of the County Commissioners Court the sum of five cents pr mile for going and returningAnd said Court shall also allow to the several Clerks of said Elections such compensation for any
stationary each Clerk may furnish for the purpose of such Election as they may deem
just
Sec 3. And the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court shall in all cases of Election when necessary call to his assistance two Justices
of the Peace of his County who shall proceed to open said returns and proceed in
all cases as in General Elections and said Justices shall be allowed such compensation
out of the County Treasury as the County Commissioners Court shall deem just and equitable.
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1Augustus C. French introduced HB 23 in the House of Representatives on December 21, 1836. On January 2, 1837, the House referred the bill to a select
committee, which reported back the bill with an amendment on January 4. The House
approved the amendment, and on January 9, they passed the bill. On January 10, the
Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported it back with an amendment
on February 2. The Senate further amended the amendment and then approved it. On February
3, the Senate referred the bill to another select committee, which reported it back
with an amendment on February 9. The Senate did not approve the amendment. The Senate
then passed the bill by a vote of 18 ayes to 15 nays, and afterward they amended the
title by striking out “judges and clerks of election” and inserted “sheriffs and clerks”
in lieu thereof. On February 14, the House voted against the Senate’s amendments by
a vote of 3 yeas to 64 nays, Abraham Lincoln voting nay. On February 22, the Senate refused to recede from their amendments to
the bill. On February 28, the House appointed members to a committee of conference
to resolve the disagreeing vote over the amendments. On March 3, the Senate laid on
the table the bill and the House’s request for a committee of conference.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 88, 162, 170, 219, 529, 591, 679, 759; Illinois Senate
Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 180, 188, 331-332, 344, 372, 413, 488-489, 606.
2The law regulating general elections provided that judges and clerks for general elections
could receive compensation, the amount to be determined by the county commissioners’
court.
Sec. 35 of “An Act regulating Elections,” 3 January 1823, Laws Passed by the Third General Assembly of the State of Illinois (1823), 53-68.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 23, HB 23, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,