In force Feb.[February] 27, 1841.
An ACT supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the formation of Piatt County.
1Additional tax to pay monies
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all money which is required by the act to which this is a supplement, to be paid by the county commissioners of Piatt county to the county of Macon,2 shall be raised by additional assessment from the inhabitants within the boundaries
taken from the county of Macon, so that the inhabitants taken from that part of De Witt which forms a part of Piatt county, shall not be required to pay any portion of the said indebtedness to the county
of Macon, any provisions contained in the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, February 27, 1841.
1John Moore introduced SB 213 to the Senate on February 19, 1841, and the Senate referred it to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The committee reported back on February 22 and recommended the bill’s rejection, and
the Senate laid it on the table. The Senate took the bill back up on February 23 and
passed it. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 27. That same day, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 488, 555; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 350, 365, 382, 438, 439, 454.
2Section 11 of An Act for the Formation of the County of Piatt required commissioners for Piatt County to pay part of the debt Macon County had
incurred in erecting a courthouse in Decatur, proportionate to the part of Macon County
included in the new Piatt County.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 91, GA Session 12-2,