In force, Feb.[February] 18, 1841.
An ACT supplemental to an act to amend an act, entitled “An act to
regulate taverns and groceries.”
1Penalties how recovered.
Proviso.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all penalties incurred by a violation of the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, may be recovered by action of debt to be commenced by summons in the name of the
people of the State of Illinois, for the use of the proper county, before any justice of the peace of the county
in which such penalty may have accrued, upon complaint of any citizen of said county;
and every justice of the peace before whom any such recovery may be had, shall report
the same to the county commissioners’ court of the county, at the next regular term thereof, and pay the amount thereof to the
county treasurer, when collected for the use of said county; Provided, That appeals shall be allowed to the circuit court as in other cases of debt.
Approved, February 18, 1841.
1Richard N. Cullom introduced SB 161 to the Senate on February 8, 1841. The Senate passed the bill on February 11. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 17. The Council of Revision approved the bill the next day and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 374, 394, 418; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 254, 292, 335, 337-38, 341.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 179, GA Session 12-2,