In force, Dec.[December] 10, 1839.
AN ACT for the benefit of Vesty Adaline Martin.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Vesty Adaline Martin, of Shelby county, in this State, is hereby rendered free and capable in law of doing and performing every and all
acts, which would be competent for persons of full age to do and perform, and all
such acts shall possess the same validity, force, and effect, as if the said Vesty Adaline Martin was of legal and mature age. This act to take effect from and after its passage.
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Certificate of Secret’y[Secretary] State
This bill having been laid before the Council of Revision, and ten days not having intervened before the adjournment of the General Assembly, and the said bill not having been returned with the objections of the council, on the first day of the present session of the General Assembly, the same has become a law.
Given under my hand, the 10th day of December, 1839.
A. P. FIELD, Secretary of State.1The Senate Journal does not show a date or sponsor for the introduction of the bill;
however, the journal notes that the Senate passed the bill on February 19, 1839. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 28. This bill having been laid before the Council of Revision, and ten days not having intervened before the adjournment of the General Assembly, and the said bill not having been returned with the objections of the council, on
the first day of the present session of the General Assembly, the same has become
a 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), 547, 557, 573; 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), 52, 465, 474.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly, at their Special Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 135, GA Session: 11-S,