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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That after the passage of this act, the County Commissioners Courts of Gallatin, Pope, Hardin [,]Johnson and Bond Counties, are hereby authorized to increase the Compensation now allowed by law,
to Grand and Petit Jurors, not to exceed one dollars and fifty cents per day2, and if the Docket and Jury fee set apart for the payment of Juries in the act to which this is a Supplement3, shall not Create a fund sufficient to pay Jurors, the sum agreed upon by the said
Courts, then and in that case, the County Commissioners Courts, shall order the balance to be paid out of the County treasury.
Sec 2 The Clerks of the said County Commissioners Courts of said Counties, shall grant certificates to Jurors
in the manner provided for in the act approved February the thirteenth one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty five.
Sec 3 All certificates granted or to be granted to Jurors pursuant to the above recited
act, shall be entitled to seventy five cents for each day so certified By said Clerk
and they shall be received by the collectors of the County Revenue in payment of County
Taxes, at the rate per day as aforesaid.
This act to take Effect from and after its passage.
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1David J. Blackman introduced HB 37 in the House of Representatives on February 15, 1841. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on February 16 with amendments, in which the House
concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on February 20. On February 25, the
Senate referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary
did not report back the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 402-03, 408, 445, 453; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 360-61, 406-407.
2In the act which this bill would have supplemented, grand and petit jurors received $75 cents a day. In January
1841, the House of Representatives had considered another bill that would have made the compensation $1.50 per day.
3Section three of the act stipulated that the petit jurors’ fee and the docketing fee would constitute a fund
to pay grand and petit jurors.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 19, HB 37, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,