Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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[February 6, 1839]

A bill for an act for the relief of the clerk of the circuit court of Sangamon county.

SEC. 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, that whenever the clerk of the circuit court of Sangamon county shall make out a fee bill in due form of law, for services rendered by him or by his predecessor in office, as clerk, in all cases in which the president and directors of the2Open page State Bank of Illinois were a party, so far as said services were rendered for said Bank, and for which it is, or would be liable, as such party, and shall transmit the same to the Auditor of Public Accounts, said Auditor shall issue his warrant upon the Treasury in favour of said clerk for such an amount as may be so shown to be due him.

SEC: 2 Said clerk, in making out said fee-bill, shall be liable to the same penalties and forfeitures for any violation of the present law regulating fees as he would be in any other case.

Amend the first section by inserting immediately before the word ``state'' in the seventh line, the word ``old''

Further amend by adding, as a third section, the following---

SEC: 3. The clerks of the circuit courts of Franklin, Fayette and Clinton counties shall be entitled to the same benefits, subject to the same pre-requisites and liabilities under this act, as the said clerk of Sangamon county.

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