In force March 4th, 1837
AN ACT to amend the act incorporating the Beardstown and Sangamon Canal Company.
1Part of 8th section of act repealed
Proviso repealed
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the eighth section of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Beardstown and Sangamon Canal Company,” approved 28th of Dec., 1835, as required said company to file a copy of the map of the line or location of the canal, with the recorder
of each county through which the canal passes, be, and the same is hereby repealed;
and the first proviso to the tenth section of said act is also repealed.2
Approved 4th March, 1837.
1On February 13, 1837, William Thomas introduced SB 167, originally titled "An Act Concerning Public Roads, and for other Purposes,” in the
Senate. On February 21, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which on March
2 reported back with a substitute, entitled “An act to amend an act to incorporate
the Beardstown and Sangamon Canal Company.” The Senate passed the substitute the same
day. On March 4, the House passed the bill without amendment. That same day, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 804, 809, 846-47, 854; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 406, 478-479, 584-585, 632-633.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed at a Session of the General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 328, GA Session: 10-1