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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that Justus Post of Alexander County in this state, shall receive out of the Canal Fund,2 the sum of one Thousand and thirty three Dollars eighty five cents for servises rendered as Engineer on the Illinois and Michigan Canal previous to the first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Canal Commissioners to pay over to the Said Justus Post or his legal representative, the amount named in the first Section in this act, out
of any money now in their hands, or that may hereafter come into their possession,
said sum when so paid as provided in this act shall be in full for the servises of said Justus Post.3
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A bill for “an act for the relief of Justus Post.”
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1William J. Gatewood introduced SB 208 in the Senate on February 17, 1841. The Senate passed the bill on February 18. On February 23,
the House of Representatives referred the bill to the Committee on Canals and Canal Lands, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. The Committee on Canals and Canal Lands reported back the bill on
February 26, recommending its passage, and the House tabled the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 442, 476, 518, 521; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A.,
2The canal fund consisted of the money borrowed by the State, the proceeds from the sale of canal stock and canal lands, as well as all revenue
arising from the canal in the form of tolls. This fund was to be used for construction
and maintenance of the canal, and no other purposes.
“An Act to Provide for Constructing the Illinois and Michigan Canal,” 22 January 1829,
Revised (1829), 14-18; John H. Krenkel, Illinois Internal Improvements, 1818-1848 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1958), 40.
3In 1823, the Board of Canal Commissioners hired civil engineers Justus Post and Rene Paul to survey the route of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and prepare cost estimates for construction of the canal. According to the Senate Committee on Canals and Canal Lands, which investigated the situation in 1837, Post
was paid for his services in a timely manner but Paul was not. The General Assembly considered bills to pay one or both of the men in 1835 and 1836, before passing a law to compensate Paul and others, excluding Post, in 1837.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 273-75.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 390, SB 208, GA Session: 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,