Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 19, 1839.

AN ACT to authorize the clerk of the Madison circuit court to procure the rebinding of certain records.
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Clerk may have records rebound.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Madison be, and he is hereby, authorized to take and convey the record books of said court to any place he may select, for the purpose of having the same rebound in a proper and substantial manner; and when said records shall be so rebound, the said clerk shall return the same to the office of the clerk of the Madison circuit court, without diminution or injury.

Approved, February 19, 1839.

1On February 1, 1839, Representative Josiah Fisk introduced HB 242 in the House of Representatives. On February 9, the House passed the bill. The Senate passed the bill on February 14. On February 19, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 320, 337, 373, 398, 428, 462; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 308, 329-330, 347.