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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The first session of the Illinois General Assembly |
| 3 | | convened on October 5, 1818 in Kaskaskia; and
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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| 15 | | superseded by the General Assembly; and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, The 14 senators of the First Illinois General |
| 17 | | Assembly were: Martin Jones of Bond County, Joseph Kitchell of
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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