Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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An Act entitled, “to amend an Act entitled, “An Act regulating the Salaries, Fees and compensation of the several Officers and persons therein named”, Approved February 19^th 1827.

Section 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all that part of the sixth Section of the Act aforesaid, as ^allows^ Constables in civil cases, mileage on Executions and Subpenas, be and the same is hereby repealed, and hereafter no mileage shall be charged or received on such writs, and hereafter the per centage on sales of property under Executions issuing from Justices of the Peace, shall be ten per cent in all cases.2

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A Bill for An Act to amend an Act, entitled “An Act regulating the salaries, fees & compensation of the several Officers and persons therein named” Approved Febry[February] 19^th 1827.”

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Rejected

1On February 13, 1837, Alpheus Wheeler in the House of Representatives presented the petition of various citizens of Pike County, requesting passage of a law relating to compensation for county officials. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. Responding to the petition, Wheeler of the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 296 in the House on February 21. The House declined to read the bill a second time.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 573, 657.

2Section six of the 1827 stipulated that constables receive 5¢ per mile on executions and subpoenas in civil cases. The commission on sales not exceeding ten dollars was ten percent; on sales exceeding $10, six percent.
“An Act Regulating the Salaries, Fees and Other Compensation of the Several Officers and Persons Therein Mentioned,” 19 February 1827, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 214, 215.