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 every person who shall after the passage of this act, cut, fell, box, bore, or destroy, or carry away any Hickory tree, shade tree or, fruit tree or sapling standing or growing upon land belonging to any other person or persons without having first obtained permission so to do, shall forfeit and pay for every such tree or sapling so felled, cut, boxed[,] bored, destroyed[,] or carried away, the sum of Eight dollars to be recovered in like manner as is provided in the second section of the act whereunto this act is an addition

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01/18/1840
Bond, Benjamin

Passed the senate
Jan^y 18th 1840
Ben: Bond secy[secretary] senate

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A Bill For an act to amend an act entitled an act to prevent tresspassing by cutting timber approved Feb[February] 27. 1819

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Marshall
Webb
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Passed

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Engrossed

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accepted

1James H. Woodworth introduced SB 48 in the Senate on December 30, 1839. The Senate passed the bill on January 18, 1840. On January 25, the House of Representatives 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 passed the bill as amended. The House reported the bill’s passage and amendment to the Senate, but the latter took no action on the House amendments.
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), 207, 256, 288; 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), 72, 97-98, 132, 219.