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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 Governor of the State be and he is hereby authorized to substitute state
Bonds for the amount of scrip paid to and held by Charles G. Scott, [Jame
?] Scott and Samuel Maloon as Contractors on the Pekin and Bloomington Rail Road. And the said Contractors above named shall present the scrip paid to and held by
them as aforesaid to the Treasurer of State before the Governor shall execute said
Bonds, who shall examine and Check the registered numbers of the same as they appear
upon the Exchange Books of the late Board of Commissioners of Public Works and if the Registered Numbers
of the Scrip presented shall be found to appear upon said Exchange Books and the same
has been issued by the said Commissioners or either of them then the Governor shall
issue Bonds to the amount of such scrip so presented and examined when the same shall
be burned in the presence of the Secretary of State, the Auditor and Treasurer of
State—any law to the contrary notwithstanding
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1Abram R. Dodge introduced HB 247 in the House of Representatives on February 15, 1841. On February 22, the House refused to pass the bill.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, At Their Second Session, Begun and Held in the City of Springfield, December
7, 1840 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 403, 438, 460, 465.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 176, HB 247, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,