Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the several Colleges mentioned in “an act to incorporate the Colleges therein named,” approved February 19, 1835, shall be permitted to select the number of acres of land which they a

re therein permitted to hold in perpetuity from any lands which they may at any time own; and the time given to said Colleges to dispose of any other real estate granted, donated[,] or devised to either of them and mentioned in the twelfth section of said act, is hereby prolonged fifteen years.

So much of the provisos to the ninth and twelfth sections of said act as conflict with this act are hereby hereby repealed.

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Calhoun, John

Passed House Reps.
Jan 27^th 1840
J Calhoun Clk.[Clerk] H. R.

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A Bill for an act to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Colleges therein named.”

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1John J. Hardin introduced HB 162 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1840. The House passed the bill on January 27. The House informed the Senate of the bill’s passage, but the latter took no action.
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), 211, 228, 259; Journal of the Senate 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), 189.