Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT concerning certain school funds in Wabash county.
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School com’r.[commissioner] to pay over money.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the school commissioner of Wabash county, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay over to the trustees of schools of the incorporated townships in said county, for common school purposes, the distributive share of the interest on the school, college, and seminary fund, paid to said county out of the State treasury for the years 1836 and 1837, pro rata with the census of the children in said townships, respectively, recently taken by order of the county commissioners’ court of the said county, or hereafter to be taken, at the discretion of the court, including the interest which may have accrued thereon.

Share retained.

Sec. 2. The share of said funds which any township, not now incorporated, would be entitled to, shall be retained by the said school commissioner, and kept at interest, for the benefit of said townships, until they may become so incorporated, respectively; when the same shall be paid over to the trustees of schools thereof.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On December 19, 1838, John Logan introduced HB 366, originally titled “A Bill to Amend ‘An Act to Establish and Maintain a General System of Internal Improvements, Approved February 27, 1837,’” in the House. On February 27, following the addition of sundry amendment by the Committee on Internal Improvements, the House passed the bill, and referred it to the Senate. On the suggestion of Edward Smith, the title was changed to “An act concerning certain school funds in Wabash county.” On March 1, the Senate 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), 459, 112-13, 538, 543, 581, 588, 602; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 452, 485, 495.