Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That hereafter, all houses or places of Public Worship, together with the lot of Ground on which said buildings are erected, Provided such lot belongs to the religious society who built thereon, are hereby exonerated from all taxation of every kind whatever, any law now in force to the Contrary notwithstanding2

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02/19/1841
Calhoun, John

Passed House Reps.
Feby 19. 1841
J Calhoun clk [clerk]H Rep.

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A Bill for an act to release from taxation, Religious places of Worship

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Engrossed

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1Ebenezer Peck from the Committee on Finance, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member, introduced HB 236 in the House of Representatives on February 15, 1841. The House passed the bill on February 19. On February 25, the Senate refused to read the bill a second time.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 400, 417, 443; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 359, 403.

2A general incorporation act for religious societies passed in 1835 made no mention of tax-exemption, but the public revenue act of 1839 had specifically exempted from tax assessment lands owned by religious societies for church grounds.