Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly
That as soon as the School Commissioners of Menard, Logan[,]and Dane Counties shall enter into bond with the County Courts of their respective counties for the proper discharge of their duties, and present a certificate of the County Clerks of their respective counties certifying to the facts of their having been thus authorized to recive said funds, the School Commissioner of Sangamon County be and he is hereby required to pay over the Township funds belonging to the several Townships within the limits of the counties of Menard, Logan [,]and Dane.
Sec. 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts, shall apportion the funds to be distributed on the first Monday in January next for the use of schools in Sangamon county in the following proportions; to wit to Menard County five hundred dollars, to Logan County two hundred and fifty dollars, to Dane County two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 3. All abstracts and schedules and other useful papers comprising maps, reports of Trustees, and all other usefu[l] papers, that have been or may hereafter be prescribed to the School Commissioner of Sangamon County that properly belong to any and all of the several townships within the limits of the Counties mentioned in the first section of this act, shall be furnished to the proper commissioners on or before the 30th day of December 1839, if application be made for the same

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Sec. 4. It shall be lawful here after for the County Courts of all new counties formed or to be formed in this state, after the organization required by law, to appoint a School Commissioner and said commissioner on producing evidence of his appointment as required by the first section of this act, is hereby authorized to demand, sue for, and receive from the county or counties from which the same shall have been taken or out of which such new county was or may be formed all monies[,] papers[,] or other valuable things that of right belongs to the inhabitants of said new county.
sec. 5. The School Commissioners of Menard, Logan and Dane Counties, shall be allowed to receive schedules and abstracts of schools up to the second Monday of January next; and they shall also be allowed the further time of one week to prepare for paying claims, but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as delay payments longer than the third Monday of January A.D 1840.
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Jan 2nd 1840
J Calhoun Clk[Clerk] H. R.

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An act to authorize and require the School Commissioner of Sangamon County to pay over certain school funds to the School Commissioners of Menard, Logan, and Dane Counties and also the cour of Schuyler county to pay over certain monies to the cou of Brown co
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 55, HB 56, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,