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Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the Auditor of the State of Illinois, be requested to furnish a statement of the amount of the resident taxes in each
county in this State, received for the year 1834;—Also the amount each county in
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this State will receive for the year 1855[1835], under the present revenue law, and also the amount received into the State Treasury from each county in this State, (including the counties on the Military Bounty lands,) for the year 1834: also, the amount paid each county on the Bounty lands in lieu
of resident tax for the year 1834.21On December 5, 1834, William Ross introduced the resolution the House of Representatives. The House adopted the resolution on the same day. It is unclear whether the House
received a response to this inquiry.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 62-63.
2From 1823 to 1838, all of the Illinois property taxes owed by persons residing outside
the state (non-resident tax) was allocated for the use of the state government. One-third
of the property taxes owed by Illinois residents was also allocated for the state,
leaving two-thirds of the resident tax for the use of counties.
Robert Murray Haig, A History of the General Property Tax in Illinois, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1914 (Champaign: University of Illinois, 1914),
40-42.
Printed Transcription, 2 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 62-63