Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

A Bill For an act supplemental to an act entitled to locate a state road from Hardy Fosters in Marrion County To Shebyville in Shelby County aproved March 4^th 1837.
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Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general assembly, That H. B Thompson of Fayette county, be and is hereby ^appointed^ a commissioner to [~~...~~?] fill the place of John A Wakefield removed out of the County, to view survey & locate a road from Hardy Fosters in Marrion County to Shelbyville in Shelby, county

Sec. 2 That a majority of the commissioners appointed to locate said road shall have ^have^ full power & authority to locate the same, provided the whole number should not attend at the time agreed on by the a majority of Said commissioners to meet for the purpose of laying out said road, and said commissioners or a majority of them shall have until the first day of December next, to compleat the location of said road & make the returns provided for the in the act to which this is a supplement

This act to be in force from its passage

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A Bill For a act supplemenlat to an act entittled an act to locate a State Road from Hardy fosters in Marrion county to Shelbyville in Shelby County

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Or.[Ordered] 2^d Reading

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Thomas Jr., Jesse B.

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Greenup, William C.

Engrossed by. Greenup

1Robert K. McLaughlin introduced SB 23 in the Senate on July 14, 1837. The Senate passed the bill on July 17. On that same day, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee, which did not report back the bill. The House and Senate incorporated provisions of this bill into SB 38.
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), 91, 96;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), 50, 66, 72-73.