Sec.[Section] 1st. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That hereafter when any attachment shall be placed in the hands of any Sheriff or other Officer, and the defendant shall be in the act of absconding with his goods and effects, it shall be lawful for such Officer to pursue the said defendant into any county of this State, and to lay upon and take the goods and chattels of said defendant back to the County from which said attachment issued, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Passed Jany 13 1840
J Calhoun clk[clerk] H. R.

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No 39
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A bill for “an act concerning attachments”.
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Engrossed.
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passed
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passed

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 19, HB 20, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,