Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

An Act to amend an act entitled “an act in relation to Garnishees” approved February 12^th 1839
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That the “act in relation to Garnishees” approved February 12^th 1839, be, and the same is hereby further suspended until the first day of January 1841

This act to take effect & be in force

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An act to amend “an act in relation to Garnishees”

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ord 2^d Reading.
Jany. 8. 1840.

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Laid on the table
4^th July—next
Jany[January] 13. 1840

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1Robert Smith introduced HB 110 in the House of Representatives on January 8, 1840. The House ordered the bill to a second reading by a vote of 51 yeas to 32 nays, with Abraham Lincoln voting yea. On January 13, the House tabled the bill until July 4 by a vote of 55 yeas to 23 nays, with Lincoln voting yea.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 137, 163-64.