Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb. 19, 1839.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Jo Daviess Marine and Fire Insurance Company.[”]
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Commissioners to superintend subscription.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Atchison , Daniel Wann, T. B. Farnsworth, H. H. Gear, Thomas Melville, F. Stake, and William C. Bostwick, are hereby appointed commissioners for superintending subscription to the capital stock of said company; and the said commissioners

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shall open one or more subscription books for said stock in the town of Galena, on the first Monday in May, 1839.

Election of directors.

Sec. 2. The election of the directors of said company shall be conducted as heretofore provided, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday in May, 1840, and until others are elected in their stead; and the directors for every subsequent year shall be elected on the first Monday in May.

Charter void unless.

Sec. 3. The charter of the said company hereby amended shall be void, and of no effect, unless the stock shall be subscribed, and the company commence operations, within two years after the passage of this act; and the twenty-second section of the act to which this is amendatory, as well as every other part of said act conflicting herewith, is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 19, 1839.

1On January 28, 1839, Senator George W. Harrison introduced SB 147 in the Senate. On February 7, the Senate passed the bill. On February 14, the House of Representatives passed the bill. 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), 367, 408, 428; 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), 236. 278, 293, 337, 347-348, 370.