Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That all moneys which are now required by law to be paid to the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts, by persons redeeming lands which may have been sold for taxes under the provisions
of the act to which this is supplementary shall be paid by said Clerks into the County
Treasuries1 of their respective Counties, within ten days after it shall have been so paid to
them; and the County Treasurers2 of the several Counties shall give receipts for all such moneys to said Clerks who
shall file and safely keep such receipts in their respective offices
3Sec 2 One half of the amount of money arriseing from the County taxes which may be
collected upon property personal or real within the limits of any incorporated town
or city in this State shall after deducting the costs of collecting the same be paid
out of the County Treasury; of the County in which such town or City is situated,
into the Treasury of such Town or City, upon an order to be made by the board of Trustees
thereof, and said Board of Trustees thereof, and said board of Trustees shall cause
such monies to be properly expended in carrying out the objects for which such Town
or City may have been incorporated
Sec 3 The lien which is now declared by the act, to which this is supplementary to
exist
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in favour of this State and of the several Counties thereof upon personal property
for any taxes to be levied upon the same shall not continue to exist for a longer
period than three months from the time such taxes become dueSec 2 The printer or printers who may publish advertisements for the sale of lands for
taxes shall not be required to transmit except as is hereinafter provided more than
one number of each paper containing such advertisements to each Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the several Counties in this state; which paper so transmitted shall be filed in the Office of said Clerk
Sec 34 The Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of any County, other than that in which the lands advertised for sale may be situated,
shall not be required to post a number of the paper containing such advertisements;
nor shall any sheriff be required to post a number of the same; nor shall said printer
or printers be required to transmit to any sheriff any number of such papers
Sec 45 Such printer or printers shall be required to transmit to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the County where the lands advertised for sale may lie five numbers of the paper
containing such advertisement One number of which, said Clerk shall post up as now
required by law; two numbers
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he shall deliver to the sheriff of his County and the remaining two numbers he shall
file and safely keep in his office
Sec 56 Lands subdivided and laid out in Town lots, streets, and alleys, shall not be subject
to taxation by their numbers and discriptions in the aggregate as quarter sections of land, but the lots into which the lands are
divided shall be listed and taxed seperately by their numbers as Town lots according to their value. The word “or” between the
words real and personal in the twentieth section of the act to which this is supplemental shall be construed
as “and,” and in all respects shall have the same meaning and signification as the
word and. The blank in the twenty sixth section of the act to which this is supplemental
shall be filled with the words “second monday.”
Sec 67 Any provision in the8 act to which this is supplementary contrary to the provisions of this act are hereby
repealedThe Secretary of State is hereby required to transmit copies of this act in the same
manner and at the same time, as he is required to transmit copies of the act to which
this is supplemental.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 544, SB 266, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,