An Act to amend an act entitled “an act to create the County of Bureau”
Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the president and trustees, or other corporate authorities of the town of Princeton, are hereby fully authorised and empowered, to levy and collect an advalorem tax, upon all the real estate within the corporate limits of said Town of Princeton, for the purpose of raising a revenue the sum of five thousand dollars, which tax when collected shall be paid into the
county Treasury to be appropriated in defraying the expenses of erecting public buildings,
for the county of Bureau, said tax to be levied in any terms of years not exceeding three years, as the corporate
authorities of the said town of princeton may think best.
Sec 2 When said sum of five thousand dollars shall be colleted and paid into the County
treasury, of the county of Bureau, as aforesaid, it shall be a full discharge of all further demands against the owners
and proprietors of said town of Princeton, or any person or persons directly or indirectly, liable for such owners and proprietors.
Sec 3 Should the owner of any real estate lying within the town of Princeton, fail or refuse to pay the tax authorised to be leveid and collected by this act, and should there be no personal property belonging to
the owners of such real estate, within the limits of said town of Princeton, then and in that case the collecting officers of said corporation, shall report
such real estate as may be in arrears, to the proper authority of the said town of
Princeton, which real
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estate so returned shall be proceeded against as is required by law for the collection
of the State tax, in such cases, and a lein is hereby created in behalf of said corporation, upon the real estate within the
limits of the town of Princeton aforesaid, for the purpose of securing the tax authorised to be leveied and collected by this act
Sec 4.This act to be in force from and after its passage
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 259, HB 315, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL]