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Sec[Section]. 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois ^represented in the General assembly^ That, the [enumeration?] of the Inhabitants of this State as is required by the Act to which this is an amendment shall commence on the first
Monday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
and shall close on the last day of October thereafter.2
Sec. 2 So much of the 2nd Section of the act to which this is an amendment is hereby repealed. This act to
be in force from its passage.
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A Bill for An Act to amend An Act to provide for the taking of the Census or enumeration
of the Inhabitants of the State.
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02/03/1835
02/03/1835
Feby[February] 3d 1835.
1William L. D. Ewing introduced SB 87 in the Senate on January 29, 1835. The Senate referred it to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on February 2 with an amendment, in which the Senate
concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on February 3. On February 6, the
House of Representatives refused to read the bill a third time.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 365, 396, 418, 503; Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 386, 395, 406.
2The Illinois General Assembly instituted the state census in 1829. They decreed that it be done every five years
beginning in 1830, and to begin on the first Monday in September and end three months
later.
“An Act to Provide for the Taking of the Census, or Enumeration of the Inhabitants
of the State,” 13 January 1829, Revised (1829), 18-22.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 244, SB 87, GA Session: 9-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)