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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people [of the] State of Illinois represented in the [General] Assembly, That every County in the [state created?] or established by any [?] previous to the present Session of the [General] Assembly and through which no Rail road or Canal is required to be made by the act Entitled “An act to establish and maintain a General System of Internal Improvements approved on the twenty seventh day of February One thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven, shall be entitled to distributive share of the Two hundred Thousand dollars appropriated by the above recited act, for purposes of Internal Improvement in Certain Counties and in making the distribution [amongst?] those Counties in which the [?] in the [year?] One Thousand Eight hundred and [thirty?] five, the proportion allowed to [each?] of such Counties shall be regulated by the [number?] of votes given for Governor at the Election in August last counting five [?] for every voter but nothing herein contained shall interfere with distributions already made2
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A Bill For an act to provide for the distribution of certain funds heretofore appropriated to certain Counties for purposes of Internal Improvement
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1William Thomas introduced SB 54 in the Senate on January 2, 1839. On January 11, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Internal Improvements. The Committee on Internal Improvements reported back the bill on February 8 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate referred the bill as amended to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 19 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on February 23. On March 2, the House of Representatives tabled the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 493, 593, 599; Illinois Senate Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 126, 157, 295, 350, 392.
2Section eighteen, sub-section fifteen, of the internal improvement act appropriated $200,000 to counties through which no railroad or canal was provided at the expense of the State. This money was to be distributed proportionally based on the most recent census. The money was to be used to improve roads, build bridges, and construct other necessary public works as part of the internal improvement system. By December 1838, the fund commissioners had distributed $145,510 to sixteen counties. There appears to be some discrepancy on the amount distributed. Krenkel and the Sangamo Journal cite the total as $144,700, but a tabulation of the figures printed in the Sangamo Journal results in $145,510. This bill, if it had become law, would have provided for the twenty-one counties created between passage of the internal improvement act and March 2, 1839.
John H. Krenkel, Illinois Internal Improvements 1818-1848 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch, 1958), 83-84; Sangamo Journal 12 January 1839, 2:1.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 368, SB 54, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,