Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT authorizing the county commissioners’ court of Madison county to levy and collect a special tax.
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Special tax to pay county debt.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of enabling the county of Madison to discharge the debts created by the authority of the county commissioners’ court of said county, in building a bridge across Wood river, at Milton, in said county, the county commissioners’ court of said county of Madison is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect a special or additional tax, of not exceeding one-half of one per centum per annum, for the years eighteen hundred and t[hi]rty-nine and forty, on all taxable property, real and personal, in said county of Madison; which tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes; when so collected, shall be applied to the liquidation of the debts as above described, unless the same shall have been previously paid; in which event, the amount of taxes so collected shall be paid into the county treasury, and used for other county purposes.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 20, 1839, George Smith introduced HB 359 in the House. On February 26, following the insertion of an amendment by a select committee, the House passed the bill, and referred it to the Senate. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill without further amendment. On March 2, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 458, 508, 522, 525, 578, 588, 597; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 437, 475, 495.