Whereas Robert Davis, of the county of Pike, did at the December term, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, of the Supreme Court, as one of the securities of James Davis, late clerk of the county commissioners’ court, of said county of Pike, confess judgment, in favor of the State of Illinois, for the sum of two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; and whereas the Legislature at its last session made an appropriation to the county of Scott, of two thousand dollars, to be expended in making improvements upon the State road, between Winchester and Florence; and whereas one thousand dollars of said appropriation is yet due and unpaid, from the State to the said county of Scott; and whereas the said Robert Davis, for the purpose of enabling him to meet his aforesaid liability to the State, took a contract from the county of Scott, upon the road aforesaid, and has performed work thereon to the amount of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars; and whereas the said Robert Davis has an order from the county commissioners’ court of Scott county, for the one thousand dollars now due from the State upon the appropriation aforesaid; and whereas, the said Robert Davis, is anxious to apply said one thousand dollars as a credit upon the judgment aforesaid: Now therefore,

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Auditor of Public Accounts, is hereby authorized and required, upon the said Robert Davis delivering to him an order from the county commissioners’ court of Scott county, upon the Fund Commissioners of this State, for the sum of one thousand dollars, to enter a credit of one thousand dollars upon a judgment rendered against said Robert Davis, in favor of the state of Illinois, at the December term, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, of the Supreme Court, for the sum of two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; and when such credit is so entered upon said judgment, all claim which the county of Scott now has upon the State for the appropriation of two thousand dollars, made to said county, at the last session of the General Assembly, shall cease, and the one thousand dollars of said appropriation, which now remains unpaid, instead of being paid to the said county of Scott, shall be paid into the Treasury of this State.

Approved, January 27, 1840.