Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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An Act to Amend amd an Act Intitled an Act to Amend an Act precribing the mode of Summoning grand and petit Jurors and defining their qualifications and duties

Sect[Section] 1 Be It enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented In the General Assembly that the county commissioners court of the Several counties of State Shall have make an Allowance out of the county treasury of their Respective counties to All grand and petit Jurymen who may be Regularly Summoned and Shall Actualy Actually Serve as Such in the circuit court of their counties any Sum not less than Seventy five cents per day2

This act to be in force from and After Its passage

Sec. 2 So much of the Act to which this is an Amendment As comes within the pervue of this Act be and the Same Is hearby Repealed

This Act to be in force from and after Its passage

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An Act to Amend an Act Intitled an Act to Amend an Act precribing the mode of Summoning grand and petit Jurors and defining their qualifications and duties

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Carpenter
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Walker of Morgan
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Murphy of Perry.

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amt [?] Sheriffs to receive & [?] Corporate

1Milton Carpenter introduced HB 9 in the House of Representatives on July 11, 1837. On July 17, the House amended the bill and on July 21, they passed it as amended. The Senate read the bill twice, but took no further action before the close of the legislative session.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 21, 28-29, 88, 145-46; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 125-126, 138.

2On July 17, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by striking out “not less than seventy-five cents per day” and inserting “not more than one dollar and fifty cents per day, Provided that no allowance shall be made under this act unless the respective county courts shall make an order to that effect, at each March term of the county courts.”
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, 88.