Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly

Sec.[Section] 1. That when any Sheriff or other officer shall execute a deed for lands or tenements, which he may have sold by virtue of any Execution, it shall be this duty to acknowledge the same before the Clerk of the Court whence it issued, or in open Court, or before the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the County wherein such lands or tenements are situated, and the Clerk[']s Certificate of such acknowledgement, shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the Execution thereof

Sec. 2. The 14^th Section of the “act concerning judgments and Executions” Approved January 17^th 1825 is hereby repealed, but rights acquired and liabilities incurred under said Section, shall be, and remain as though the same were in full force

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02/26/1839
Prickett, David (Pricket)

Passed the H. R. Feby 26 1839
D. Prickett Clk[Clerk] H R

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H. R. N^o 205

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Bill for an act to amend an act Concerning Judgments & Executions approved Jan^y[January] 17^th 1825

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Engrossed

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Ind[Indefinitely] postponed

1On January 17, 1839, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to amend “An Act concerning Judgments and Executions,” approved January 17, 1825. In response to this resolution, Josiah Fisk of the Committee on the Judiciary introduced HB 254 in the House on February 4. The House passed the bill on February 26. On March 1, the Senate indefinitely postponed further consideration.
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), 229, 338, 433, 524, 581; 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), 437, 474.