Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Upper Alton.”
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Act repealed.

Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Upper Alton,” approved

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February 18th, 1837, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That the board of trustees of the said town of Upper Alton, now in office, shall have power and authority to collect, sue for, and recover, from any collector or treasurer of said town, or who may have acted as such, or other persons, any moneys in their hands, collected by them for taxes or otherwise, belonging to said town; and the said board of trustees shall appropriate the same to the payment of any debts that may have been contracted by authority of the said board of trustees; and should there be any overplus, after discharging all the debts as aforesaid, the same shall be expended, under the direction of the said board of trustees, in improving the streets in the said town of Upper Alton.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 16, 1839, George Smith introduced HB 307 in the House of Representatives. On February 23, the House passed the bill. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill. On March 2, 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), 418, 435, 492-93, 580, 593, 602; 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), 407, 483, 496.