Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb. [February]18, 1841.

An ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Tazewell County Commercial and Fire Insurance Company,” approved, March 2, 1839.
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Name changed

Name & style

Sec. [Section]1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the corporate name of the “Tazewell County Commercial and Fire Insurance Company,” be, and the same is hereby changed, and hereafter it shall be known and styled “the Pekin Insurance Company,” and by that name it may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and transact all other business authorized by the act to which this is an amendment.

Stock may be loaned

Sec. 2. The capital stock of said company may be loaned by said company on personal security: Provided, No greater rate of interest shall be demanded or taken than is authorized by the tenth section of the act to which this is an amendment.

Approved, February 18, 1841.

1Richard N. Cullom introduced SB 150 to the Senate on February 3, 1841, and the Senate referred it to the Committee on Incorporations. The Senate passed the bill on February 6. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 16. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 18 and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Twelfth General Assemble (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 347, 390, 411; Journal of the Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 234, 243, 248, 329-330, 337-338, 341.