In force, Feb.[February] 17, 1841.
An ACT to compel the School Commissioner of Cook county to pay over certain moneys to the School Commissioners of Will, Du Page, M’Henry and Lake counties.
1School Com’r[Commissioner] of Cook co. to pay over moneys.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the school commissioner of Cook county shall, upon demand, pay over to the school commissioners of the counties of Will, Du Page, M’Henry and Lake, so much of the money heretofore received from the Auditor, for interest on school,
college and seminary funds, as, by the census of one thousand eight hundred and forty,
they are entitled to.2
Approved, February 17, 1841.
1Richard Murphy introduced HB 204 to the House of Representatives on February 5, 1841, and the House passed it. The Senate passed the bill on February 10. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 17 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 334, 369, 407, 413, 424; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 247, 250, 255, 286-87.
2Between 1836 and 1839, the General Assembly carved out of Cook County the new counties of McHenry, Will, Dupage, and Lake. None of the acts organizing these new counties included provisions for school commissioners
or any apparatus to the get the new counties their percentage of the interest on the
school fund, which Cook County retained.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 256, GA Session 12-2,