Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That S. S Farris[,] S Wilson, J. A. Robinson, R F Cross, J W Campbell, A. S Hargrave, J Keen, J M^cCollum [?] W. Borah, C. J Ridgeway, J W Barnhill, E R Selby, J. C Bennett, D. Turney, W. L [?], and their Associates and successors: be and they are hereby, created, constituted and declared to be, a body corporate and politic; with perpetual succession for ever, by the name and style of the “Illinois Legion” with all and singular the plenary powers and prerogatives in the county of Wayne, that are granted to the Invinciable dragoons of the 2^nd Division of Illinois Militia” in the counties of White, Edwards, and Wabash.

Sec 2 [The corporation?] shall be attached to the 2^nd division of Illinois Militia and shall organize in Fairfield on the 22^nd of February 1839.

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Prickett, David (Pricket)

Passed the H. R. Feby 26. 1839
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A Bill for “an act to incorporate the Illinois Legion.

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Engrossed.

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1Jeffrey Robinson introduced HB 268 in the House of Representatives on February 5, 1839. The House passed the bill on February 26. On March 1, the Senate refused to read the bill a second time.
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), 348, 433, 467, 523, 575; 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), 437, 467.