Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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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 the county-commissioners of Lasalle County, be and they are hereby authorized, to lease to W^m H. [Kinnidal?] of said county a certain [Gas?] or Salt Spring, together with a lot of ground 50 feet in length on the river and 25 feet deep including said spring, on the south bank of the Illinois River on the commons in the Town of Ottawa under such rules regulations and restrictions as the said commissioners may deem proper and expediant, provided, they reserve to the inhabitents of said Town of Ottowa a free and gratuitous use of said spring and of going to and from the same
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01/05/1835
David Prickett

passed H. R. Jan 5. 1835
D. Prickett Clk.[Clerk] H. R.

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A Bill for an “act, to authorize the county commissioners of Lasalle County to lease a certain lot of ground

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1John Hamlin from a select committee, to which the House of Representatives referred the petition of sundry citizens of La Salle County, introduced HB 68 in the House on January 2, 1835. The House passed the bill on January 5. On January 7, the Senate tabled the bill. 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), 202, 211, 218; 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), 188, 191, 200.

2On December 29, 1834, John Hamlin presented in the House of Representatives the petition of sundry citizens of Ottawa, praying lease of a certain spring in the commons of said town. 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), 174.