Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force July 22, 1837.

AN ACT relative to the duty of County Treasurers and Sheriffs.
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Duty of county treasurer.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the county treasurer, of any county in this state, whenever any county order is presented for payment, to endorse on the hack of any such order, the time when the same was presented for payment; and it shall also be the duty of the said treasurer, to set down in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, the amount and date of all such county orders, to whom made payable, and the time when presented to the said treasurer for payment; and all county orders shall be paid according to their original dates; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer, whenever any money comes to his hands, to set apart the amount of the order presented as aforesaid, which money shall be kept by the treasurer until called for; and the said treasurer, when he goes out of office, shall deliver said book, containing a list of the county orders so presented, to his successor, who shall in all things act as though the entries of orders were made by himself.

Duty of sheriff.

Failure to comply.

Liability.

Sec. 2. It shall hereafter be the duty of the sheriff of every county in this state, to make out and deliver to the treasurer of his county, on the first Mondays in January and

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March, June and September2, in each year, an account of the amount of revenue collected by him for the past year, stating particularly the amount collected in cash, and the amount collected in county orders, which account shall be kept by the said treasurers, subject to the inspection of any voter of the county; and in case any treasurer or sheriff shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, he shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars, to be sued for in the name of the county commissioners’ court, by any person or persons, by an action of debt, before any justice of the peace, or the circuit court of the county.

Approved, July 22, 1837.

1William O’Rear introduced SB 1 in the Senate on July 14, 1837. On July 17, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on July 18 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended. On July 20, the House of Representatives amended the bill by inserting after the word “March” in the second section the words “June and September.” The House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred with the House amendment on July 21. On July 22, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 114, 143-44, 165, 181; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session, Begun and Held in Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 49, 66, 73, 83-84, 121, 145.

2On July 20, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding the words “June and September.”
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 143.