Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 27th Feb.[February] 1837.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Carlyle bridge company.
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Act amended so as to authorise the erection of bridge &e.[etc.]

Proviso.

Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the third section of the act entitled an act to incorporate the Carlyle bridge company, approved January 16th 1836, shall be and the

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same is hereby so amended as to authorise and empower the corporation by said act created to erect the bridge therein authorised across the Kaskaskia river, by commencing the same at the east end of Franklin instead of Fairfax street at Carlyle, or at such point between said streets as to said corporation may seem best, thence to the east bank of said river, to be constructed in all other respects as contemplated in said act of incorporation, Provided, Said company shall so construct said bridge by having a slide or draw in the middle of the same, so as to afford at all times a free and speedy passage to seam boats and other water crafts, Provided also, That said company shall not so construct said bridge as to obstruct the ford on the river where the state road now crosses the same.

Sec. 2. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved February 27th, 1837.

1On December 30, 1836, Benjamin Bond introduced SB 32 in the Senate. On January 2, 1837, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported the bill back with amendments on January 3. The Senate approved the amendment, and on January 5, they passed the bill as amended. On January 25, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back the bill with amendments on February 9. The House approved the amendments, and on February 18, they passed the bill as amended. On February 23, the Senate concurred in the amendments from the Senate. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 180, 189, 389, 535, 641, 687, 716, 729; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 128, 140, 143-44, 153, 460-461, 497, 523, 528, 543-544.