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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, that it shall not be necessary for a constable having an execution from the office of any Justice of the peace, or Probate Justice of the Peace to hold the same for the full period of Seventy days from the issuing thereof before he returns the same in order to entitle the plaintiff in execution to a transcript as authorized by the 29th Section of an act concerning Justices of the Peace and Constables approved February 3rd 1827.2 But the same may be returned by the constable at any time between the issuing of such execution and the return day thereof whenever he may be satisfied that personal property cannot be found to satisfy the same; and immediately upon said return, the plaintiff in execution shall be entitled to the provisions of the 29th Section of the act to which this is an amendment, or upon the return thereof the plaintiff in execution may proceed according to the provisions of an act entitled an act in relation to garnashees approved Feby [February] 12th 1839,3 or may have capias for the body according to law in such case made and provided.

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No 19
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A Bill for an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act concerning Justices of the Peace and Constables approved Feby 3rd 1827
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read 3
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Dec.[December] 30
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report Back and recommend its Passage
1Byrd Monroe introduced SB 12 in the Senate on November 30, 1840. The Senate referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on December 19 without amendment, recommending its passage. The Senate concurred on December 21. On December 30, the House of Representatives referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee on the Judiciary reported back the bill on January 4, 1841, without amendment, recommending its rejection. The House declined to read the bill a third time.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 145, 149, 164, 181; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 28, 93, 100, 135.
2“An Act concerning Justices of the Peace and Constables,” 3 February 1827, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 259-74.
3Section one of the act included provisions for executions against defendants returned by officers “no property found.”

Handwritten Document, 3 page(s), Folder 224, SB 12, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,