Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to create the county of Bureau.”
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Ad valorem tax in Princeton to be paid into county treasury; how appropriated.

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 authorized and empowered to levy and collect an ad valorem tax upon all the real estate within the corporate limits of said town of Princeton, for the purpose of raising 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 term of years, not exceeding three years, as the corporate authorities of the said town of Princeton may think best.

$5,000 a full discharge.

Sec. 2. When said sum of five thousand dollars shall be collected and paid into the county treasury of the connty 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.

On refusal to pay tax.

Sec. 3. Should the owner of any real estate lying within the town of Princeton fail or refuse to pay the tax authorized to be levied 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

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of the said town of Princeton; which real estate, so returned, shall be proceeded against as is required by law for the collection of the State tax in such cases; and a lien 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 authorized to be levied and collected by this act.

Sec. 4. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 18, 1839, John Moore introduced HB 315 in the House. On February 26, the House passed the bill without amendment, and referred it to the Senate. On March 1, the Senate too passed the bill without amendment. On March 2, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 426, 435, 473, 524, 575, 582, 596; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 437-38, 473, 488.