Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Jan.[January] 30, 1840.

AN ACT to legalize the assessment of the Revenue in the counties of Iroquois and Clay, for the year 1839.
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Assessment in Iroquois and Clay for 1839, legalized

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the assessment of the taxable property made in the counties of Iroquois and Clay, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby legalized and made binding, as though the same had been done in strict conformity with the provisions of the “Act concerning the Public Revenue,” approved February the twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

Persons aggrieved how to proceed

Proviso

Sec. 2. That any person feeling aggrieved by the valuation of taxable property in the counties aforesaid, shall be entitled to the provisions of the twelfth section of the “Act concerning the Public Revenue:” Provided, Application be made to the County Commissioners’ Courts at their March term of said Courts, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, for such purposes.

Sec. 3. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved, January 30, 1840.

1On December 28, 1839, Representative Louis Roberts introduced HB 63 in the House of Representatives. On January 2, 1840, the House passed the bill. On January 27, the Senate passed the bill. On January 30, 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), 96-97, 108, 118, 263, 281, 297; 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), 84, 184-85.