AN ACT supplementary to “An act concerning the Public Revenue.”
1All redemption money required to be paid to county clerks, to be paid over to county
treasurers.
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 commissioner’s court 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
treasuries of their respective counties within ten
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days after it shall have been so paid to them; and the county treasurers of the several
counties shall give receipts for all such moneys to the said clerks, who shall file
and safely keep such receipts in their respective offices.
Number of papers to be transmitted by printer.
Sec. 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 advertisement, to each clerk of the
county commissioner’s court of the several counties in this State; which paper so transmitted shall be filed in the office of said clerk.
Clerk need not post notice in certain cases.
Sec. 3. The clerk of the county commissioners’ court of any county, other than that in which the land 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 paper.
Printer to send clerk of each county in which sale occurs, five papers.
Sec. 4. 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 he shall deliver to the sheriff of his county, and the
remaining two numbers he shall file and safely keep in this office.
Lots not taxable in aggregate, but by numbers.
Construction of former act.
Sec. 5. Lands sub-divided and laid out in town lots, streets, and alleys, shall not be subject
to taxation by their numbers and description in the aggregate as quarter sections
of land, but the lots into which the lands are divided shall be listed and taxed separately,
by their numbers, as town lots2, 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.”
Certain provisions repealed.
Sec. 6. Any provisions in the act to which this is supplementary, contrary to the provisions
of this act, are hereby repealed. The 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.3
Approved, March 1, 1839.
1Sidney H. Little introduced SB 266, originally titled, "An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled, 'An Act Concerning Justices
of the Peace and Constables,'" in the Senate on February 20, 1839. The Senate referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on February 27 with an amendment,
in which the Senate concurred. The Senate referred the bill to a select committee.
The select committee reported back the bill on February 28 with an amendment. The
Senate amended the amendment by inserting between the words “aggregate” and “but,”
the words “as quarter sections of land;” and after the word “number,” the words “as
town lots.” The Senate adopted the amendment as amended. The Senate rejected the
bill as amended by a vote of 9 yeas to 25 nays. The Senate later took up the bill
again, striking out three sections. The Senate passed the bill as amended by a vote
of 20 yeas to 13 nays, amending the title so as to read “An Act Supplementary to ‘An
Act concerning the Public Revenue.’” On February 28, the House of Representatives concurred with the bill’s passage. On March 1, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 564, 565, 573; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 366-67, 448, 453-54, 455-56, 458, 460, 465,
474, 476-77.
2On February 28, 1839, the Senate amended the bill by adding the words “as quarter sections of land,” and “as town lots.”
Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 454.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 23-24, GA Session: 11-1,