In force, Feb. 3, 1840.
AN ACT to amend “an act to incorporate the Peoria Commercial Insurance Company,” approved, Feb.[February] 18, 1837.
1Sec. of act repealed
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the twelfth and thirteenth sections of an act to which this is an amendment, is hereby repealed.2
Comr’s[Commissioners] to open books
Sec. 2. Francis Voris, Amos Stevens, Andrew Gray, Moses Pettingell, Aquilla Wren, Lewis Nowell, J. C. Armstrong, J. M. Smith and James H. Work, be, and are hereby, appointed commissioners to open books to the subscription of the capital stock in
the same manner as is provided in the act to which this an amendment.
Approved, February 3d, 1840.
1John Hamlin introduced SB 73 in the Senate on January 7, 1840. The Senate passed the bill on January 30. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 1. On February 3, 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 Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 305, 313, 317, 318; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 91, 204, 211-12, 230, 234, 243.
2These sections restricted the amount of capital the company could insure or lend,
and that the president and directors had to swear to the General Assembly that the capital stock for the company had been paid.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly, at their Special Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 112, GA Session: 11-S,