Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT to incorporate the Greene County Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
1

Name & style.
Body politic.

Powers and privileges.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Carlin, A. W. Caverally, David Pierson, D. M. Woodson, William Yates, M. S. Link, John Evens, and James Reno, be, and they and all other persons who may hereafter become members are hereby, incorporated as a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of “The Greene County Mutual Fire Insurance Company;” and said company shall possess all the powers, privileges, rights, and immunities that are granted to the Illinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company in its charter granted at its present session of the General Assembly, and subject to the same conditions, terms, and restrictions; and shall be organized and conducted according to the provisions of the charter of saidIllinois Mutual Fire Insurance Company , so far as the same are applicable to this company.

Sec. 2. The Greene County Mutual Fire Insurance Company shall be organized in manner prescribed in said charter of said Illinois Mutual Fire Insurace Company, and, whenever organized, it shall go into full effect and operation in conformity to the charter above alluded to.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 27, 1839, Edward M. Daley introduced this bill in the House. On February 28, following the addition of sundry amendments by a select committee, the House passed the bill. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill without further amendment. On March 2,Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 542, 557, 587, 598, 603; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 457, 490, 502.