Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 26, 1839.

AN ACT to legalize the survey of the town of Carthage.
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Plat legalized.

Sec.[Secretary] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the survey and plat thereof, made in the year 1838, of the town of Carthage, in Hancock county, and now on file, to be recorded, in the office of the recorder of said county, be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and established, as the proper survey and map thereof; and that all other surveys of said town heretofore made be, and the same are hereby, vacated.

[ certification ]
02/26/1839
Field, Alexander P.

Certificate of Sec.[Secretary] State

This bill having remained with the Council of Revision ten days, and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law, this 26th February, 1839.
A. P. FIELD, Secretary of State.

1On January 3, 1839, in response to a petition from citizens of Hamilton County, Senator Sydney H. Little introduced SB 56 in the Senate. The Senate passed the bill on January 17. On February 5, the House of Representatives passed the bill. According to a certificate of the Secretary of the Senate, the bill became law on February 26.
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), 233, 281, 350, 390, 415; 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), 131, 157-158, 183-184, 322, 337.