In force, Feb.[February] 3d, 1840
AN ACT supplemental to an act to authorize and require the school comcommissioner of Sangamon county to pay over certain school funds to the school commissioners of Menard, Logan, and Dane counties.
1Words construed
Duty of auditor and school commissioner
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the words “January next,” in the second and third lines of the second section
of the act to which this is supplemental, shall be construed to apply to, and mean, January,
1840. And the Auditor of Public Accounts, and the school commissioner of Sangamon county, are hereby required to construe the act to which this is supplemental, as applying
to the present year, and not to the year 1841.
Approved, February 3d, 1840.
1Thomas J. Nance introduced HB 236 in the House of Representatives on January 30, 1840. The House passed the bill the same day. The Senate 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), 294, 328, 338, 339; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 220, 239.
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), 97, GA Session: 11-S,