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 first section of an act, entitled “an act appropriating a portion of the avails arising from the sale of the Saline lands in Gallatin county to internal improvements,” approved February 16^th 1831, approved February 11^th 1835, approved 2^d March 1837, be repealed, so far as relates to two hundred ^dollars^ mentioned in said act approved 2^d March 1837, the first two hundred dollars mentioned in said act shall be expended as now directed by said act.

Sec 2 And the other part of said appropriation, viz: two hundred dollars, shall be appropriated to building a bridge across the skillet fork, of the Little Wabash river, at or near Maulding’s mill where the state road leading from Fairfield in Wayne county to Mt. Vernon in Jefferson county crosses said river, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Calhoun, John

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Jan 30 1840.
J Calhoun Clk.[Clerk] H. Reps

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A Bill for an act concerning the appropriations therein named

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Marshall
Turney
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1Daniel Turney introduced HB 195 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1840. The House passed the bill on January 30. 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), 215, 280, 294, 296; 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), 220.