In force March 4th, 1837.
AN ACT supplemental to an act to incorporate the city of Chicago.
1Act repealed.
Persons may have recourse to the municipal courts.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the said (act) as permits the licensing of billiard tables in the
said city be repealed,2 that all persons residing in the said county of Cook, may at their option have recourse to the municipal court of said city, and the said municipal court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court in all matters arising within said county, that only so much of an act entitled an act to incorporate the inhabitants of such
towns as may wish to be incorporated, approved on the 12th day of February 1831,3 shall be repealed as is inconsistent with the provisions of the act incorporating the said city of Chicago, and only in so far as the same relates to the said city of Chicago.4
Approved 4th March, 1837.
1William G. Reddick introduced HB 230, originally titled “A Bill for Certain State Roads therein Named,” in the House of Representatives on February 11, 1837. The House passed the bill on February 20. On February 25,
the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on March 3 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed
the bill as amended, amending the title so as to read “A Bill Supplemental to an Act
to Incorporate the City of Chicago.” The House concurred with the Senate amendments and amended title on the same day.
On March 4, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 557, 651, 835, 837, 838, 844; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 525, 610, 626.
2Section 55 of the act incorporating Chicago gave power to the common council to authorize licensing of
billiards tables.
3“An Act to Incorporate the Inhabitants of Such Towns as May Wish to be Incorporated,”
1 March 1831, Laws of Illinois (1831), 82-87.
4On March 3, 1837, the Senate amended HB 230, replacing the original text with a substitute. The Senate also amended the bill’s
title. The House approved these amendments on the same day.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 835, 837; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 610.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 81, GA Session: 10-1