Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

A Bill to amend an act relative to the improvement of the Great Wabash River Approved, 12^th February 1833
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Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Commissioner, appointed on the part of this state, to superintend, the improvements of the Great wabash River to annually make a report to the Governor of this State, of the procedings, had under the act to which this is an amendment, Shewing the progress or result of any examination, survey or improvement, that has been made, the amount [~~...~~?] ^drawn^ from treasury in pursuance of law, and a detaled statement of the disbursment of said fund under his Charge, and the time he has actually been engaged in the discharge of his duties, which report shall be laid before the general assembly by the Governor for their examination and inspection in the first week of each Session.

Sec 2^d So much of the Sixth Section of the act to which this is an amendment, as requires the Commissioner to settle with the Circuit Court of Wabash County be and the same is hereby repealed2

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A Bill to amend an act relative to the improvement of the great wabash river approved 12^th Febuary 1833.

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Prickett, David (Pricket)

to be Engrossed as amended.
Clk. H. R.

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McHenry
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1John Dawson introduced HB 41 in the House of Representatives on December 18, 1834. On December 19, the House referred it to a select committee. On December 26, the select committee reported back the bill without amendment, but the House re-committed it to another select committee. This select committee reported the bill back with an amendment on January 10, 1835, and the House referred the bill and amendment to the Committee on Finance. On January 15, the Committee on Finance reported back the bill with sundry amendments, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on January 16. On January 24, the Senate referred it to the Committee on Internal Improvements. The bill did not become law. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 133, 139, 162, 265-66, 295-96, 308; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 265, 286, 324.

2Section 6 had ordered the commissioner to only report his progress and paperwork to the Wabash Circuit Court, which would then report it to the governor.
“An Act relative to the money appropriated to the improvement of the navigation of the Great Wabash river, by an act approved, January 19, 1829, and for other purposes,” 12 February 1833, The Revised Laws of Illinois (1833), 609-11.