Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the Sixth Section of the act to which this is an amendment as prohibits the Justices of the Supreme and Circuit Courts from practising law in the courts of the United States within this State, be and the same is hereby repealed2

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A Bill for an act to amend an act entitled “an act concerning attorneys and counsellors at law approved March 1^st 1833.

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Rejected

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Engrossed

1Edwin B. Webb introduced HB 183 in the House of Representatives on January 29, 1835. The House rejected the bill on February 6.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 205, 429; Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 393, 403.

2Section 6 of the act that this bill would have amended stated that no justice of the supreme or circuit courts can act as an attorney by instituting, conducting, or defending any suit in state or federal courts.
“An Act concerning Attorneys and Counselors at Law,” 1 March 1833, Revised (1833), 99-102.