In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.
AN ACT to authorize the reprinting of certain laws of this State.
1Duty of Sec’y[Secretary] of State.
Justices’ laws to be printed.
Incorporation laws.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause so much of the laws of this State as relates to the duties of justices of the peace to be reprinted, and distributed, with the laws of the present session of the General Assembly, to such counties in this State as have not been supplied with the Revised Laws; and that the acts of incorporation, passed at the present session, be printed separately,
and not bound; and that only five hundred copies of said acts be printed for distribution
among the several counties in this State.
2Approved, March 2, 1839.
1On February 20, 1839, Ebenezer Peck introduced Misc SB 6 in the Senate. On March 2, the Senate passed the bill without amendment. On Peck’s suggestion, the title was changed to “An act to authorize the reprinting of certain
laws of this State.” That same day, the House added a proviso to the end of the bill, which was accepted by a vote of 48 yeas
to 10 nays, with Lincoln voting yea. Afterward, the House too passed the bill. That same day, the Council 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), 593, 594-95, 605; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the
State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 365, 471 (?), 499-500, 507, 509, 510, 512.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 290, GA Session: 11-1,