In force, Jan.[January] 18, 1840.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled, an act to amend the several acts In relation to common schools, approved March 4, 1837.
1Part of act repealed
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the act entitled “an act to amend the several acts in relation to
common schools,” as requires, two-thirds of (the) votes to be in favor of beccoming incorporated, is hereby repealed: And hereafter it shall only be necessary for a majority of the
legal voters of any township in this State, to vote for becoming incorporated,
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to entitle them to all the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment.
Approved, January 18th, 1840.
1On December 30, 1839, Senator Franklin Witt introduced SB 46 in the Senate. On January 3, 1840, the Senate passed the bill. On January 11, 1840, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On January 18, 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, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 126, 147, 153; 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), 71, 80, 82, 105, 117, 135.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly, at their Special Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 90-91, GA Session: 11-S,