Full Text of HR0080 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The first session of the Illinois General Assembly | 3 | | convened on October 5, 1818 in Kaskaskia; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, As Illinois was not yet a state in October 1818, | 5 | | General Assembly members did not
pass legislation during the | 6 | | first week of session in 1818 and adjourned until statehood was | 7 | | approved; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The second session of the First General Assembly | 9 | | convened in January 1819 after Illinois
was officially declared | 10 | | a state on December 3, 1818; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The first piece of legislation of the Illinois | 12 | | General Assembly was on a
hand-written, one-page document, An | 13 | | Act Declaring What Laws are in Force in This State, which
made | 14 | | British Common Law the rule of the land until aspects were | 15 | | superseded by the General Assembly; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, The 14 senators of the First Illinois General | 17 | | Assembly were: Martin Jones of Bond County, Joseph Kitchell of
| 18 | | Crawford County, Guy W. Smith of Edwards County, Michael Jones | 19 | | of Gallatin County, Conrad Will of
Jackson County, Thomas | 20 | | Roberts of Johnson and Franklin Counties, George Cadwell of | 21 | | Madison County,
Alexander Jamison of Monroe County, Lewis |
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| 1 | | Barker of Pope County, William Kinney of St. Clair County,
John | 2 | | McFerron of Randolph County, Thomas Cox of Union County, Zariah | 3 | | Maddux of Washington
County, and Willis Hargrave of White | 4 | | County; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The 29 representatives of the First Illinois | 6 | | General Assembly were:
Francis Kirkpatrick of Bond County, | 7 | | David Porter and Scott Riggs of Crawford County, Levi Compton | 8 | | and
Henry Utter of Edwards County, Elijah Ewing of Franklin | 9 | | County, John Marshall and Samuel McClintock
of Gallatin County, | 10 | | Jesse Greggs of Jackson County, Isaac D. Wilcox of Johnson | 11 | | County, Abraham
Prickett, John Howard, and Samuel Whiteside of | 12 | | Madison County, William Alexander of Monroe County,
Green B. | 13 | | Field and Robert Hamilton of Pope County, Risdon Moore, John | 14 | | Messinger, and James D.
Thomas of St. Clair County, Edward | 15 | | Humphreys of Randolph County, Jesse Echols and John Whiteaker | 16 | | of
Union County, Daniel S. Swearengen of Washington County, and | 17 | | William McHenry, William Nash, and
Alexander Phillips of White | 18 | | County; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, On February 4, 1819, An Act Declaring What Laws | 20 | | are in Force in This State was signed by the first Governor of
| 21 | | Illinois, Shadrach Bond, the first Lieutenant Governor of | 22 | | Illinois, Pierre Menard, who also served as the
Senate | 23 | | President for the First General Assembly, and the first Speaker | 24 | | of the House, John Messinger; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 2 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | we commemorate the passage of the first Public Act in Illinois | 4 | | on February 4, 1819.
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