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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That hereafter it shall be the duty of each county collector in this State to attend at one or more places within each Justices district, between the first Mondays of November and March annually for the purpose of collecting the State and county revenue
Sec 2 It shall be the duty of each collector of the revenue and he is hereby required to post or cause to be posted up written or printed notices, and to publish in a newspaper if any is published in the county, said notices shall specify the number of days he will attend in each district the time when and the place or places where he will attend for the purpose of collecting the revenue as aforesaid
Sec 3 If any person shall fail to pay his or her taxes at the time appointed by the collector, or by the first day of March annually, the collector is hereby required to proceed according to the provisions of the seventeenth section of the act concerning the public revenue, and so much of the sixteenth section of the above recited act as requires the collectors to call upon each and every person at the usual place of residence be and the same is hereby repeald
Sec 4 Collectors shall hereafter be allowed six per cent on all sums collected any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding
Sec 5 The tax levied for county purposes by the county commissioners courts in the several counties of this State, shall not exceed forty cents upon every
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hundred dollars worth of real and personal property and so much of the twentieth section of an act concerning the public revenue as authorizes the levy of a tax of one half of one per cent for county purposes be and the same is hereby repealed.
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Passed the Senate Feby 27. 1841
M L Covell secty[secretary]
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no. 225
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A bill for an Act defining the duties of County collectors
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1John Moore introduced SB 237 in the Senate on February 24, 1841. The Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Counties. The Committee on Counties reported back the bill on February 27 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended. On February 27, the House of Representatives indefinitely postponed further consideration.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 547, 551, 555; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 388, 433, 454.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 416, SB 237, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,