Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That the Clerks of the Supreme, Circuit and County Commissioners Courts, shall be allowed a fee of fifty cents for taking the proof or acknowledgment for any deed or conveyance, and affixing their official seal thereto.

Sec 2 That the Clerks of county commissioners courts shall not charge any fees for its Issuing ^Issuing^ writs of election, comparing election returns, issuing notices to supervisors of roads, issuing certificates of allowances made made by the court[,] or for any other services rendered the county

Sec 3 That county commissioners courts shall allow their respective clerks, such reasonable compensation for exeficio services as they may think right not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum exclusive of a reasonable allowance per day for their attendan[ce] on court in [?] time

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A bill for “An act regulating the fees of clerks of the supreme, circuit and county Commissioners Courts.”

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Passed

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Jan 27

1On January 20, 1840, William W. Happy introduced HB 164 in the House of Representatives, and the House referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. On January 24, the committee reported the bill without amendment. On January 28, the House passed the bill. (There is no evidence of Senate action on this bill.)
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 211-12, 239, 263, 268; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held in Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 196.