Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 20th July, 1837.

AN ACT to amend the act incorporating the Kaskaskia Bridge Company.
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Part of act repealed.

Act repealed.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 above recited act as authorizes the county commissioners court of Randolph county, to regulate the tolls of said company, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the said company shall be allowed to charge and receive the same rates of toll as was allowed to the ferry across the Kaskaskia River, at Kaskaskia, by the county commissioners’ court of said county for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven; and so much of said act as authorizes the the county of Randolph to purchase the said bridge at the end of five years, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. Nothing contained in the act aforesaid shall be so construed as to prohibit the said company from receiving donation, or in payment of stock subscribed, or any town lot or lot of land which any person may be disposed to

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grant or convey, to aid the said company in erecting and keeping in repair their said bridge.

Approved, 20th July, 1837.

1On July 12, 1837, Richard B. Servant in the Senate presented the petition of Nathaniel Pope and others, requesting a change in the act chartering the Kaskaskia Bridge Company. The Senate referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition, Servant introduced SB 12 in the Senate on July 13. The Senate passed the bill on July 15. The House of Representatives concurred on July 17. On July 20, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 75, 95, 124; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session, Begun and Held in Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 41, 44-45, 50-51, 65, 79, 108-109, 114-15.