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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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
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[January 10, 1840]
A bill for an act to establish a state road from Petersburg in Menard county to Waverly in Morgan county
SEC: 1st. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That John B. Broadwell, Franklin Minor2Open page and Achilles Morris, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view mark, and locate a state road from Petersburg in Menard county by way of John B Broadwell's, Berlin, New Berlin and the rail road depot in Sangamon county to Waverly in Morgan county.
SEC. 2nd. That said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Petersburg on the first monday of March next, or any time within sixty days thereafter---and after being first duly sworn, shall proceed to locate said said [sic] road, avoiding as much as possible all injury to private property.
SEC: 3rd. That said commissioners shall make out a separate report of so much of the location of said road as lies in each of said
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counties, and file the same with the clerk of the county commissioners court of the proper county.
SEC: 4th. That said commissioners shall have such compensation out of the Treasuries of said counties as shall be just and reasonable.3Open page
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