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 the sum of five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to the building a bridge across the East fork of shoal creek in montgomery county where the road leading from Vandalia to Hillsboro crosses the same Or at the nearest eligible point to said Crossing the said Creek

Sec. 2. The sum of five hundred dollars is to be paid over for the purpose aforesaid out of any moneys which have accumulated by the sales of the Vermilion Saline land not otherwise appropriated upon the order of the county commissioners court of montgomery county and by them applied to the building of Said Bridge in a good and substantial manner2

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02/25/1837
Thomas Jr., Jesse B.

Passed the Senate, Feby 25^th 1837
J B Thomas jr
Sec’y[Secretary] Senate.

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N^o 409

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Senate
A Bill for an act making an appropriation to build a Bridge across the East fork of shoal creek in montgomery County

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Passed

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used up.

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Engrossed

1Larkin Craig introduced SB 240 in the Senate on February 13, 1837, and the Senate referred it to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 23 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on February 25. On February 28, the House of Representatives declined to read the bill a second time.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 718, 764; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 408, 492, 519-20, 583.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836),

2Selling portions of the Saline Reserve Lands and appropriating the proceeds for public works was part of the Illinois Internal Improvement System. In 1827, the General Assembly petitioned Congress for permission to sell 30,000 acres in either Gallatin County or Vermilion County. An area on the Vermilion River in Vermilion County was eventually selected for sale, and the General Assembly, anticipating congressional approval, enacted a law in 1829 establishing the mechanism for the sale and appropriating the revenue received therefrom. Sections ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen appropriated the proceeds to various counties. Montgomery County was not among the counties receiving appropriations. In 1836, the House of Representatives rejected an amendment including Montgomery County in a bill assigning the residue of unsold lands in the Saline Reserve. Soon after the House refused to read SB 240 a second time, the General Assembly approved an act appropriating $100 to the county out of the revenue realized from the sale of the Vermilion Saline.
“An Act concerning the Saline Reserves, a Penitentiary, and the Improvement of Certain Navigable Streams,” 15 February 1827, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 353-60; “An Act Providing for the Sale of the Vermilion Saline Reserve, and Appropriating the Avails Thereof,” 19 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 143-49.