In force, Jan. 7, 1841.
An ACT to amend an act entitled “ An act to incorporate the city of Quincy,” approved, February 3, 1840.
1Qualifications of electors.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That at all elections of mayor and aldermen within and for said city, all white male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, who have re-
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sided in the State six months next preceding the election, and who actually reside in the said city, shall enjoy the right of el[ect]ors, but no person shall be entitled to vote for aldermen except in the ward in which
he shall actually reside at the time of the election.2City to support paupers.
Sec. 2. The county shall be exempt from the support of paupers within the limits of said city, but the city council shall provide such means and pass such ordinances as they shall
deem proper for the support of their own paupers.3
Citizens to pay county tax.
Sec. 3. The inhabitants of the city of Quincy shall, the same as other citizens of the county, pay a county tax on all their property situate without the limits of the city.4
Part of act repealed.
Sec. 4. So much of the act to which this is an amendment, as requires the mayor of the city to be a freeholder, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. The city council shall pass no ordinance contrary to, or which in any manner conflicts
with, the laws of the United States or of this State, and any such ordinance which the city council may have passed, shall be void and
of no effect.5
Mayor shall give bond as justice of peace.
Sec. 6. The person elected to the office of mayor shall, before being commissioned by
the Governor as a justice of the peace, give bond as is now required by law of justices of the peace, and on failure to do
so, another election shall be ordered, as is now required by the act to which this
is an amendment.67
Approved, January 7, 1841.
1James H. Ralston introduced SB 4 to the Senate on November 27, 1840, and the Senate referred it to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Senate passed an amendment adding the 5th section on December 9 and passed the
bill. The House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee on December 11. The committee reported back
on December 17 and recommended amendments, to which the House concurred and passed
the bill. The Senate concurred with the amended bill on December 22. The Council of Revision approved the bill on January 7, 1841, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 95, 101, 105-06, 129, 145; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 23-24, 42, 61-62, 90, 102, 128, 146, 442.
2Article IV of the original incorporation act required voters to have lived in Quincy
for 90 days preceding the election.
4Article VIII, Section 1 of the original incorporation act exempted city residents
from paying county taxes for any purpose except for the completion of the county jail.
5The Senate passed an amendment adding this section on December 9, 1840.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 62.
6The House of Representatives passed an amendment adding the 6th section on December 17, 1840.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 129.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 57-58, GA Session 12-2,