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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People [of the State of] Illinois represented in the Gen[eral Assembly] That, in all cases wherein probate [?] Peace, or such other person as [?] by law to grant probate [?] or shall have [become?] [?] will or testament, which [?] to be proved before [?] place [?] grant probate as [?] of such witness is [?] the same, their and in such [?] his duty to admit the same [?] his[?] [knowledge?] of the [?] to the execution of said [?] if the same had been [?] the testimony of one [?] shall [thereupon?] grant [probate?] which shall be good and [?] when he shall [?] of a will and his own knowledge [?] an entry of that fact on his [?]
Sec. 2. This act to take effect [from the date of] its [passage.]
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A Bill for an act to provide for the probate of wills in certain Cases.
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1Benjamin Johnson introduced HB 241 in the House of Representatives on January 29, 1839. On February 2, the House refused to order the bill engrossed for a third reading.
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), 307, 324.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 190, HB 241, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)