In force, 27th Feb.[February] 1837.
AN ACT for the relief of the clerk of the county commissioners court of Franklin county.
1Lands in Franklin.
Clerk authorised to sell.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful that all lands lying in the county of Franklin on which taxes are due and unpaid, and which by virtue of an act approved February
27th 1833, would be subject to sale for the taxes due thereon, on the first Monday
in March next, that the clerk of said county is hereby legally authorised to sell the same on the first Monday in May next, by making publication of said sale
in all respects previous to the sale of the same, as required by law.2
Clerk to pay over taxes.
Sec. 2. And the clerk of the county commissioners court of Franklin county, shall hereby have until the first Monday in June next, to make his return to the Auditor of public accounts, and pay over the whole amount
of taxes due on said lands into the State Treasury as is now provided by law.
Sec. 3. All lands which may be sold for taxes under the provisions of this act, are hereby
declared valid in every respect as if the same had been sold under the provisions
of the above recited act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved 27th Feb., 1837.
1On February 4, 1837, Achilles D. Dollins introduced HB 174 in the House of Representatives, and the House referred the bill to a select committee, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. On February 9, the select committee reported the bill without amendment.
On February 18, the House passed the bill. On February 23, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 428, 477-78, 533, 639, 688, 716, 729, 739; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 463-464, 501, 523, 528.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 185, GA Session: 10-1