In force, Mar.[March] 1, 1839.
AN ACT to amend the law in relation to sheriffs and coroners.
1Where sh’ff.[sheriff] fails to pay over money.
execution to issue.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the clerk of the circuit court in any county in this
State on the application of the plaintiff in any judgment where an execution can properly
be issued, and an affidavit being filed by the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, that the sheriff has failed to pay over money collected by him on any previous execution
in favor of the same plaintiff, or any other persons, on demand made therefor by the
plaintiff in such previous execution, his agent or attorney, to issue execution directed to the coroner of the county, who shall be authorized
and required to perform all duties in relation to said execution which the sheriff
is authorized and required to (perform) where the execution is directed to him.
Approved, March 1, 1839.
1Abraham Lincoln from the Committee on Counties introduced HB 234 in the House of Representatives on February 11, 1839. The House passed the bill on February 15. The Senate concurred on February 28. On March 1, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 377, 395, 415, 562, 568, 575; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 338, 426, 459, 475.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 217, GA Session: 11-1,