Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

A Bill for an act to Divorce Hartvill Moore and Nancy Moore.
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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General assembly That the banns of matrimony heretofore and now existing between Hartville Moore and Nancy Moore be and they are hereby forever disolved2

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A Bill for an act to Divorce Hartvill Moore and Nancy Moore.

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Rejected

1Christian B. Blockburger from a select committee to which the House of Representatives referred the petition of Moore, praying for a divorce, introduced HB 166 in the House on January 27, 1835. The House refused to read the bill a second time.
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), 405.

2Although rare, legislative divorce was available in Illinois from 1818 until the Illinois Constitution of 1848, although there were no legislative divorces after 1838, when that body granted its last divorce by legislative act. After that time, all divorces in the state fell within the jurisdiction of the circuit courts.
Illinois Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 32 (1848); Eugene L. Gross and William L. Gross, An Index to All the Laws of the State of Illinois (Springfield: E. L. & W. L. Gross, 1869), 13; “An Act concerning Divorces,” approved 1 June 1827, The Revised Code of Laws of Illinois (1827), 181.