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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the state Road leading from the Rocky Ford on Salt Creek in Logan County, to the rapids of the Illinois River, as lies between little Mackinaw and Big Mackinaw, shall be and is hereby altered as follows, commencing at a bridge in the land between
the farms of Robert Hughes and Thomas F. Rails back on little Mackinaw, thence north on the center line of Section, to the north line of Section twenty
nine, thence west, eighty rods, thence north until it intersects the road as originally
laid out.
Sec 2. That the President and Trustees of the Tazewell County Commercial and Fire insurance company hereafter be permitted to loan the capital stock of said company when collected on personal security. And all the provisions of the tenth section
of the act of Incorporation approved March the second. one thousand eight hundred
and thirty ni[ne] shall apply to money so loaned as well as money loaned on land and secured by mortgage
on real estate, And that the said company may lend money either on personal or real security at a rate of interest not exceeding
twelve per cent per annum and that the title of said company, shall be changed and hereafter be called, the Pekin
Insurance
Company
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Engrossed
1William S. Maus introduced HB 189 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1840. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on January 30 with an amendment, in which the House
concurred. The House engrossed the bill, but did not read it a third time.
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), 215, 293, 317.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 171, HB 189, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,