Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Dec[December] 19, 1[8]33.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company,” approved March 1, 1833.
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Part of said act repealed.

Point of termination changed.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the “act to incorporate the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company,” approved March 1st 1833,” to which this is an amendment, as provides for the extension of said road from Alton to a point on the Mississippi river, opposite to St. Louis, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that hereafter the point of termination of said road, shall be at Alton, on the Mississippi river.2

Approved, Dec. 19, 1835.

1Cyrus Edwards introduced SB 1 in the Senate on December 9, 1835. The Senate passed the bill on December 11. The House of Representatives concurred on December 12. On December 19, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 35, 37-38, 84, 113, 121; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 13, 21, 23, 28, 57, 78, 80.

2Section 1 of the act to which this is an amendment provided that the turnpike should run from Springfield, through Carlinville and Alton, to a point in St. Clair County opposite the river from St. Louis. The General Assembly amended the company’s incorporation act several times during Abraham Lincoln’s tenure in the legislature.
“An Act to Incorporate the Springfield and Alton Tunpike Road Company,” 1 March 1833, Laws of a Private Nature (1833), 77-82; An Act Supplementary to "An Act to Incorporate the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company"; An Act to Amend the Act Incorporating the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company; An Act Extending the Time to the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company to Complete Said Road; An Act Supplemental to the Charter of the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company.