Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act prescribing the mode of Summoning Grand and petit Jurors and defineing their qualifications ^and^ duties approved February 13^th 1835
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Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly: that the County Commissioners Court of the Several Counties in this State be required to make an allowance out of the County treasury of their respective counties of the Sum of one dollar and fifty cents to all Grand and petit jurors who Shall be regularly Summoned and Shall actually Serve as Such in their Circuit Courts of their respective counties

Sec 2^nd that the first Section and the proviso contained in the Second Section of the act to which this is an amendment be and the Same is hereby repealed

this act to take effect from and after its passage

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A Bill for an act to amend an act entitled an act prescribing the mode of Summoning Grand and petit Jurors and defineing their qualifications and duties

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Calhoun, John

to be engrossed
Clk. H. R.

1Wyatt B. Stapp introduced HB 39 in the House of Representatives on December 19, 1839. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on December 28 with amendments, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on January 13, 1840. The House reported the bill’s passage to the Senate, but the latter took no action.
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), 63, 97, 127, 161; Journal of the Senate 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), 109-10.