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Sec[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that so much of an Act entitled an act concerning the public revenue as requires the Collectors of the several Counties to call upon [each?] & every person residing in their Counties at his or her usual place of residence
& require the payment the payment of taxes be & the same is hereby repealed.2 And be it enacted that hereafter said Collectors may require payment of taxes by
said persons wherever & whenever they may [see?] or meet them in their respective counties
2nd And be it further enacted that said collectors may by printed notices to be posted
up in three public places in each Township requiresd [said] persons to attend at some public place in sd
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each
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up And upon their failing to attend and pay their taxes at the time and place so designated
the same shall be considered a demand of the taxes and sd Collectors may proceed to collect their taxes as now authorised by law
3rd Be it further enacted that so much of sd. act as allows said Collectors ten per cent for advertising & selling personal property
and ten cents for each tract of land sold, be & the same is hereby repealed3 & said Collectors shall be allowed to collect the same fees as are now allowed by
law upon an execution from the Circuit Court to be made from the sale of said land
or personal property
4th This act to take effect from & after the 1st of July ^next^
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1Solomon Parsons introduced HB 218 in the House of Representatives on February 9, 1841. The House referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on February 16, and the House
referred it to the Committee on Finance, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. The Committee on Finance reported back the bill on February 27, and
the House discharged it from further consideration. The House took no further action.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 350, 407, 558.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 155, HB 218, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,