Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

An Act to amend an act entitled an act relative to criminal Jurisprudence Approved Feb.[February] 26^th 1833
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Sect[Section] 1) Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly That every grocery keeper who shall suffer or per mit games ^or game^ prohibited or intended to be prohibited by the act to which this is an amendment to be played in his grocery or in any outhouse appendant thereto shall on conviction ther off be fined in any sum not exceding one hundred dollars and shall forfeit his or her License and shall not again be licensed as a grocery keeper for one year from such conviction. It shall be the duty of all Justices of the Peace[,] Sheriffs[,] coroners[,] and grand Juriors now in office or hereafter to be appointed to take notice and give information to the proper authorities of all such offences as may be committed in ther respective counties contrary to the provisions of this act or the act to which this is an amendment whearever the same may in any wise come under their immediate observation. And if any officer whose duty it is made to execute the provisions of this act or the act to which this is an amendment shall neglect to enforce its provisions upon view or com complaint such officer upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of one hundred dollars and shall moreover be suspended from office fore one year

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Sec.[Section] 2) Every person who shall not have a legal license to keep a grocery who shall barter[,] exchange[,] or sell any wine[,] rum[,] brandy[,] gin[,] whiskey[,] or other vinous[,] spiritous[,] or mixed liquors to any person or persons by a less quantity than one quart Shall on conviction be fined for every offence ten dollars

Sec. 3) The one hundred and twenty eighth and one hundred and twenty Ninth sections of the act to which this an amendment be and the same are herby repealed. Provided that, all prosecutions now pending under either of the sections herby repealed may be carried on and prosecuted to final Judgment and execution in the same manner as if the said sections wer not repealed

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A. Bill to amend an act entitled an act relative to criminal Jurisprudence

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Ref^d[Referred] to com[committee] on Jud[Judiciary]

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1Robert McMillan introduced HB 3 in the House of Representatives on December 11, 1839. The House referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on December 27 without any amendment or recommendation, and the House tabled the 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), 10, 92.