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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That an appeal shall be allowed from the proceedings of Probate Justices of the Peace in all cases whatsoever, whether such proceedings be in the exercise of the ministerial or Judicial power of such Probate Justice of the Peace, any thing in the Tenth section of the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding; appeals to be taken and prosecuted in the manner provided by said tenth section of said act
Sec 2 That said Probate Justices of the Peace shall be allowed fifteen cents for every one hundred words, for making out and filing in the Circuit Court, a report of their proceedings as required in the seventh section of the act to which this is an amendment
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01/31/1840
Passed the senate
Jany 31st 1840
Ben: Bond secy[secretary]
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Senate 85
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A. bill for an act to amend an “act entitled an act to provide for the Election of Probate Justices of the Peace[] approved March 4 1837
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Engrossed
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01/31/1830
passed
1John Hamlin introduced SB 124 in the Senate on January 20, 1840. The Senate passed the bill on January 31. The Senate informed the House of Representatives of the bill’s passage, but the latter took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1839. 11th G. A., special sess., 309; Illinois Senate Journal. 1839. 11th G. A., special sess., 148, 204-205, 221.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 312, SB 124, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,