Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois

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Page 742 - ... company, within one year after the debt shall become due ; and no suit shall be brought against any stockholder...
Page 249 - An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to take the proof and acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and to administer oaths in Great Britain and France...
Page 849 - An Act to Reduce the Law Incorporating the City of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one Act and amend the same. "Approved February 14th, 1851.
Page 892 - Touching the duty of the Speaker. 1. He shall take the Chair every day precisely at the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the Journal of the preceding day to be read.
Page 12 - That a , committee of two on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of...
Page 89 - to reduce the act to provide for township organization and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same,
Page 13 - That it is the duty of every branch of the government to enforce and practice the most rigid economy in conducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised than is required to defray the necessary expenses of the government, and for the gradual but certain extinction of the public debt.
Page 856 - That all laws heretofore passed authorizing the appointment of commissioners to take the proof and acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and to administer oaths in other states and territories...
Page 165 - Resolved, By the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law of Congress, donating to each State in the Union an amount of public lands not less in value than...
Page 111 - Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That the reporters of the State Register and Illinois State Journal are hereby authorized to make full reports of the proceedings and debates of each house of this general assembly on all subjects of general interest, and that they be paid, for so doiug, the sum of five dollars per day each, out of the contingent fund.

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