Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That upon the confession of a judgment before the Supreme Court by the securities of James Davis, late clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Pike county, for the amounts due from said Davis to the State, the Auditor of Public Accounts is authorized to stay execution upon said judgment twelve months; and if five hundred dollars of the amount then due be paid, the execution may be stayed twelve months longer; and if one-half of the amount then due be paid, the execution may be stayed twelve months longer: but if default be made in any one of the payments, execution to issue upon the judgment, and credited by payments as though no stay had been allowed: Provided, That the costs shall be paid in advance: And provided, also, That the confession of the judgment shall be had at the term of the Supreme Court now in session.

Approved, February 1, 1839.