Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Inforce, Jan.[January] 16, 1836.

AN ACT for the relief of Eli Hooper and Pleasant Dodson, of Shelby County
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Released from recognizances

Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Eli Hooper and Pleasant Dodson, of Shelby county, who were lately bail in a recognizance for the appearance of one Solomon Story, at the circuit court of said county of Shelby, upon a charge of larceny, and against whom judgment was rendered at the May term, 1835, of said court, on their said recognizances, said Story having failed to appear according to the condition thereof, for the sum of four hundred dollars, be, and they are hereby released from, and acquitted of the payment of said fine of four hundred dollars; Provided, That said Hooper and Dodson, within three months after the passage of this act, pay to the sheriff and clerk of the said county of Shelby, and all other officers having legal charges, all costs, whatsoever, which may have in any wise accrued in the prosecution and trial of said case.

Sec. 2. All said costs being paid, as herein required, a record of the release and acquittance hereby granted, shall be entered on record in the books of the clerk of the circuit court of the said county of Shelby, which shall forever be a bar to the recovery of said judgment.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.

1On December 16, 1835, William Williamsonin the Senate introduced the petition of Eli Hooper and Pleasant Dodson, requesting an act for their relief as securities of Solomon Story. The Senate referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. Responding to the petition , William L. D. Ewing of the Committee on Petitions introduced SB 33 in the Senate on December 21. On December 23, the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary, which reported back the bill without amendment on January 1, 1836. On January 4, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back the bill without amendment on January 5. The Senate then passed the bill. On January 9, the House of Representatives referred the bill to the Committee on the Judiciary. The committee reported back the bill without amendment on January 14. The House decided to read the bill a third time by a vote of 31 yeas to 17 nays, Abraham Lincoln voting nay. On January 15, the House passed the bill. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 240, 271, 319-20, 335, 346, 358; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 80, 94, 142, 166, 172-173, 252, 268, 280.