Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled “An act to provide for certain improvements in Pike county.”
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$500 appropriated to road from Augusta.

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, out of the sum directed by the act to which this is a supplement, be expended on the road leading from Augusta, in Pike county, via Pittsfield, New Hartford, and Atlas, to Burnett’s ferry, on the Mississippi river, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the improvement of the road leading from Philips’ ferry to Pittsfield; which sum is in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.

$500 to road from ferry.

Sec. 2. That the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the road from Perry to the Illinois river, is hereby appropriated to the further improvement of said road; which sum shall be taken from the sum provided by the act to which this is a supplement, to be expended on the road from Augusta, via Pittsfield, New Hartford, and Atlas, to Burnett’s ferry, on the Mississippi river, any thing in the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding. This act shall take effect and be in force from after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 20, 1839, Jonas Rawalt introduced HB 353, originally titled “A Bill to Fix the Time for Holding Courts in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and for Other Purposes,” in the House. On March 1, following the addition of sundry amendments by a select committee, the House passed the bill, and referred it to the Senate. On the suggestion of James McWilliams, the title was changed to “An act to provide for certain improvements in Pike county.” March 2, the Senate passed the bill without further amendment. On the same day, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 457, 561, 568, 579, 601, 606; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 501, 505.