Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force May 1st, 1837

AN ACT concerning process.
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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That from and after the first day of May next, all process issuing from the cir-

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cuit courts shall bear test in the name of the respective clerks issuing the same.

Sec. 2. So much of the eleventh section of an act supplemental to the act entitled an act regulating the supreme and circuit courts, approved January 19th 1829, and so much of the first section of an act concerning practice in courts of law, approved January 29th 1827, as requires process to bear test in the name of the presiding judge be, and the same is hereby repealed.2

This act to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May next.

Approved 25th February, 1837.

1On January 7, 1837, John Dougherty introduced HB 91 in the House of Representatives. On February 8, the House passed the bill. On February 22, the Senate passed the bill. On February 25, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law, effective May 1, 1837.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 193, 399, 462, 520, 672, 694, 720; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 377, 480, 488, 514.

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“An Act concerning Practice in Courts of Law,” 29 January 1827, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 310-11; “An Act regulating the Supreme and Circuit Courts,” 19 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 39-47; “An Act Supplemental to the Act, Entitled ‘An Act regulating the Supreme and Circuit Courts,’ Approved January 19, 1829,” 23 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 52.