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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to draft and report a bill to this House requiring a per centum, to be fixed by the Legislature from time to time, as the necessities of the State may require, to be levied upon the value of all taxable property in the State, to constitute a State revenue; and also empowering the county commissioners’ courts of the different counties in the State to levy such per centum as they may from time to time, deem necessary, upon the value of all taxable property in their respective counties, to constitute the county revenue of the several counties.
1On December 13, 1838, Jesse M. McCutchen introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. The House tabled the resolution the same day.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 82.

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