Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the Auditor of Public Accounts, be required to report to this House the amount

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of non-resident land tax paid into the State Treasury for the year 1834, and previous to his making out the list of delinquent landholders for the same year, as required by law.

Be it further resolved, That said Auditor report to this House the amount which all the Sheriffs of this State will receive as their compensations for collecting the land tax for the year 1834, agreeable to the abstracts returned to his office for the same year.2

1On January 16, 1835, William Ross introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. On January 19, the House received a response from the Auditor of Public Accounts, which they referred to the Committee on Finance.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 305-306, 332.

2From 1823 to 1838, all of the state 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.