In force, Feb.[February] 23, 1841.
An ACT to amend “An act incorporating the town of Belleville.”
1Part of act repealed.
Majority may repeal incorporation.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the act authorizing the incorporation of the town of Belleville, in St. Clair county, as requires two-thirds of the legal voters of said incorporation to decide upon the repeal of said incorporation, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that hereafter, at any election to be held for
trustees of said town of Belleville, a majority of said voters shall be sufficient to decide whether the said town shall continue incorporated or not, and should a majority of the voters decide against
continuing the said charter or incorporation, it shall from thenceforth cease and
be null and void.2
Approved, February 23, 1841.
1Adam W. Snyder presented a petition from the citizens of Belleville to the Senate on December 22, 1840, requesting repeal of the town’s original incorporation law,
and the Senate referred it to the Committee on the Judiciary. Snyder introduced SB 206 on February 16 and the Senate passed the bill. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 19. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 23 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 419, 440-41; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 103, 327, 359, 365, 383.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 334, GA Session: 12-2,